Visualization
Analysis & Design

Visualization
Analysis & Design

Visualization
Analysis & Design

The primary audience of this book is students in a first vis course,
particularly at the graduate level but also at the advanced undergraduate
level. While admittedly written from a computer scientist’s
point of view, the book aims to be accessible to a broad audience
including students in geography, library science, and design.
It does not assume any experience with programming, mathematics,
human–computer interaction, cartography, or graphic design;
for those who do have such a background, some of the terms that
I define in this book are connected with the specialized vocabulary
from these areas through notes in the margins. Other audiences
are people from other fields with an interest in vis, who
would like to understand the principles and design choices of this
field, and practitioners in the field who might use it as a reference
for a more formal analysis and improvements of production vis
applications.

Tamara Munzner