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

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.