Visualization Analysis and Design: Abstractions, Principles, and Methods

Pre-publication early and incomplete draft: far from finished. Do not quote. Many things will change!

Book Draft 2 (PDF, 66MB). 1 September 2012

This book is most certainly far from finished, feedback at many different levels is useful:

• I'm very interested in issues of structure and exposition at large and medium scales: the ordering of chapters themselves, of sections within chapters, and even of paragraph-level explanations within sections.
• I'm very interested in omissions - if you think important material is missing.
• I'm very interested in any question of fact - if you think anything I've written is just plain wrong, please do let me know.
• I'm also interested in issues of interpretation, especially on the frameworks for Principles and Methods that I'm proposing here.
• I'm not so interested in English bugs at the level of grammar/typos - fine to send them along if you notice any, but careful copyediting will take place at a later phase after the content is more stable.
• I'm not interested in feedback about layout or figure locations, that will be completely redone at a later stage of book production. Also, the "vocab notes" currently formatted as footnotes will be something like callout boxes in margin. All hand-drawn diagrams will of course become something more polished, after the content is more nailed down.