Book at a Glance
Documenting ideas through visualization
Throughout this book, we will discuss research, current working theories, and how these concepts are implemented in practice. Through this visualization, we hope to make the content easier to understand as to what’s explicitly researched, what’s sometimes extrapolated from that research, and what’s potentially thought but not fully proven scientifically.
Book Parts
We’ve divided this book into three primary parts with a fourth section pulling it all together. Click into each of the sections get chapter overviews.
A dialog between a researcher and practitioner
Vidya Setlur, a researcher, has spent years investigating and integrating linguistics into her work, including Ask Data, a search engine within Tableau designed to display charts in semantically resonant ways.
Bridget Cogley, a practitioner, has spent over a decade working in data analysis and visualization. In addition to consulting experience centered on visualizations that captivate, she draws from her American Sign Language interpreting background to incorporate semantics in visualization.
Our backgrounds form two sides of a coin: what the research says about our ideas and how they can reasonably be incorporated into practice for better results.
