1st Edition
The Golden Age of Data Visualization How Did We Get Here?
By Kim Marriott
Copyright 2025
374 Pages
118 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
374 Pages
118 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
374 Pages
118 Color & 41 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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We are living in the Golden Age of Data Visualization. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how we increasingly use data visualizations to make sense of the world. Business analysts fill their presentations with charts, journalists use infographics to engage their readers, we rely on the dials and gauges on our household appliances, and we use mapping apps on our smartphones to find our way.... Read more
1. The Beginning
2. The Very Beginning
3. Drawing Buildings and Machines
4. Drawing Nature
5. Mapping the World
6. Mapping the State
7. Seeing the Unseeable
8. Visualizing Statistics
9. Modern Visualization
10. The Democratization of Visualization
11. Visualization without Vision
12. What’s Next?
Biography
Kim Marriott is a Professor in Computer Science at Monash University, where he leads the Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Centre. His research interests include data visualization and assistive technologies for people who are blind or have low vision.






