Graph Design for the Eye and Mind.
Graphs have become a fixture of everyday life, used in scientific and business publications, in magazines and newspapers, on television, on billboards, and even on cereal boxes. Nonetheless, surprisingly few graphs communicate effectively, and most graphs fail because they do not take into account t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Graphs have become a fixture of everyday life, used in scientific and business publications, in magazines and newspapers, on television, on billboards, and even on cereal boxes. Nonetheless, surprisingly few graphs communicate effectively, and most graphs fail because they do not take into account the goals, needs, and abilities of the viewers. In raph Design for Eye and Mind, Stephen Kosslyn addresses these problems by presenting eight psychological principles for constructing effective graphs. Each principle is solidly rooted both in the scientific literature on how we perceive and comprehen. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (303 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Sources of Data and FiguresIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199775002 0199775001 0195311841 9780195311846 1282946749 9781282946743 9786612946745 6612946741 |