Kieran Healy is associate professor of sociology at Duke University. He is the author of Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs.
"Finally! A data visualization guide that is simultaneously
practical and elegant. Healy combines the beauty and insight of
Tufte with the concrete helpfulness of Stack Exchange. Data
Visualization is brimming with insights into how quantitative
analysts can use visualization as a tool for understanding and
communication. A must-read for anyone who works with
data."--Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan
"Healy's fun and readable book is unusual in covering the 'why do'
as well as the 'how to' of data visualization, demonstrating how
dataviz is a key step in all stages of social science--from theory
construction to measurement to modeling and interpretation of
analyses--and giving readers the tools to integrate visualization
into their own work."--Andrew Gelman, author of Red State,
Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They
Do
"Data Visualization is a brilliant book that not only
teaches the reader how to visualize data but also carefully
considers why data visualization is essential for good social
science. The book is broadly relevant, beautifully rendered, and
engagingly written. It is easily accessible for students at any
level and will be an incredible teaching resource for courses on
research methods, statistics, and data visualization. It is packed
full of clear-headed and sage insights."--Becky Pettit,
University of Texas at Austin
"Healy provides a unique introduction to the process of visualizing
quantitative data, offering a remarkably coherent treatment that
will appeal to novices and advanced analysts alike. There is no
other book quite like this."--Thomas J. Leeper, London School of
Economics
"Kieran Healy has written a wonderful book that fills an important
niche in an increasingly crowded landscape of materials about
software in R. Data Visualization is clear, beautifully
formatted, and full of careful insights."--Brandon Stewart,
Princeton University
"Healy's prose is clear and direct. I came away from this book with
a much better understanding of both visualizations and R."--Neal
Caren, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Innovative and extraordinarily well-written."--Jeremy Freese,
Stanford University
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