Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"A treasure trove of inspiring ideas presented in 250 mind-expanding examples. Brath shows how to integrate text into visualizations and visualizations into text."
--Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science
"Attention graphic designers This is an important and serious book. Brath has collected hundreds of examples of text visualizations from medieval manuscripts to contemporary big data graphics and has designed a hundred more new kinds of text visualizations."
-- Nigel Holmes, Graphic Designer, Author, Former Graphics Director, Time Magazine
"A systematic study of how text functions as an element of design, not just as a carrier of content but as an intrinsic tool in presenting and organizing that content. Well-illustrated and clearly described."
--John Berry, Past President, the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI)
"The repertoire of topics with thoughtful examples offers the reader an appreciation for the role of text in supporting a better semantic understanding of data."
--Vidya Setlur, Principal Research Scientist, Tableau Software
Visualizing with Text uncovers the rich palette of text elements usable in visualizations from simple labels through to documents. Using a multidisciplinary research effort spanning across fields including visualization, typography, and cartography, it builds a solid foundation for the design space of text in visualization. The book illustrates many new kinds of visualizations, including microtext lines, skim formatting, and typographic sets that solve some of the shortcomings of well-known visualization techniques.
Key features:
- More than 240 illustrations to aid inspiration of new visualizations
- Eight new approaches to data visualization leveraging text
- Quick reference guide for visualization with text
- Builds a solid foundation extending current visualization theory
- Bridges between visualization, typography, text analytics, and natural language processing
Designers, developers, and academics can use this book as a reference and inspiration for new approaches to visualization in any application that uses text.