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Overview
This beautifully illustrated book is the first complete handbook to visual information. Well written, easy use, and carefully indexed, it describes the full range of charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, and tables used daily to manage, analyze, and communicate information. It features over 3,000 illustrations, making it an ideal source for ideas on how to present information. It is an invaluable tool for anyone who writes or designs reports, whether for scientific journals, annual reports, or magazines and newspapers.
Editorials
Booknews
Falls halfway between a dictionary and an encyclopedia, with over 850 alphabetical entries on hundreds of terms and concepts related to representing information graphically, and illustrating the myriad types of figures. Bathtub-curve bar graphs, coordinates on graphs and maps, linear regression lines, radial organization charts, statistical maps, text, and Venn diagrams are among the topics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
July 1, 1996
Publisher
Atlanta, Ga. : Management Graphics, c1996.
Pages
448
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780964692503