文档介绍：Beautiful Visualization
Beautiful Visualization
Edited by Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky
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Beautiful Visualization
Edited by Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky
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C o n t e n t s
Preface . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
1 On Beauty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Noah Iliinsky
What Is Beauty? 1
Learning from the Classics 3
How Do We Achieve Beauty? 6
Putting It Into Practice 11
Conclusion 13
2 Once Upon a Stacked Time Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Matthias Shapiro
Question + Visual Data +