{"id":2544,"date":"2014-03-21T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/data-visualization-books\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T12:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:08:43","slug":"data-visualization-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/data-visualization-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Dr. Dittmer&#8217;s blog<\/p>\n<p>This is a list of books on Data Visualization that I came across over the years. You, the reader, have to see which ones speak to you. The only one that is a must is this one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visual-Explanations-Quantities-Evidence-Narrative\/dp\/0961392126\" target=\"_self\">Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narratives<\/a> by E. R. Tufte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Others include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0970601980\/ref=oh_details_o04_s01_i02?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis<\/a> by Stephen Few<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470944889\/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i04?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visualize This: The Flowing Data Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics<\/a> by Nathan Yau<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information\/dp\/0961392142\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1380331363&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=E.R%3E+tufte\" target=\"_self\">The Visual Display of Quantitative Information<\/a> by Edward R. Tufte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For a great introduction to statistics (without programming)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0199730067\/ref=oh_details_o03_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intuitive Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking<\/a> by Harvey Motulsky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the R aficionados on data analysis (not just visualization)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1461468485\/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Applied Predictive Modeling<\/a> by Kuhn, Max<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1441996494\/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis with R (Use R!)<\/a> by Brian Everitt, Torsten Hothorn<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1849513066\/ref=oh_details_o02_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R Graph Cookbook<\/a> by Hrishi Mittal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/3642178405\/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chemometrics with R: Multivariate Data Analysis in the Natural Sciences and Life Sciences (Use R)<\/a> by Ron Wehrens<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470510242\/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The R Book<\/a> by Michael J. Crawley<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/158488486X\/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">R Graphics (Computer Science and Data Analysis)<\/a> by Paul Murrell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>For those working with images (fluorescent or IHC)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321819594\/ref=oh_details_o08_s01_i02?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers<\/a> by Martin Evening &#8212; This one is very in-depth. I use it a lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not good, imho&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1580256600\/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visualizing Categorical Data<\/a> by Michael Friendly<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195089650\/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exploring Data in Engineering, the Sciences, and Medicine<\/a> by Ronald Pearson<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0471226181\/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)<\/a> by Alan Agresti<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Dr. Dittmer&#8217;s blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/orfeome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}