Autore |
Saquib Nazmus
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Birmingham, [England] : , : Packt Publishing, , 2014
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (146 p.)
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Disciplina |
510.28553
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Collana |
Community Experience Distilled
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Soggetto topico |
Mathematica (Computer program language)
Mathematica (Computer file)
Mathematics - Data processing
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ISBN |
1-78328-300-9
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Formato |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Visualization as a Tool to Understand Data; The importance of visualization; Types of datasets; Tables; Scalar fields; Time series; Graphs; Text; Cartographic data; Mathematica as a tool for visualization; Getting started with Mathematica; Creating and selecting cells; Evaluating a cell; Suppressing output from a cell; Cell formatting; Commenting; Aborting evaluation; Upcoming chapters; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 2: Dissecting Data Using Mathematica
Data structures and core languagesIntroducing lists; Nested lists; Matrices; Constructing lists programmatically; Accessing elements from a list; Applying set operations on lists; Functions and conditionals; Declaring and using functions; Conditionals; Further core language; Data importing and basic plots; Importing data into Mathematica; SetDirectory[] and NotebookDirectory[]; Loading the dataset; Basic plotting functions; ListPlot; Styling our plots; Plot legends; 3D point plots; Log plots; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 3: Time Series and Scientific Visualization
Periodic patterns in time seriesSector charts; Simulating Internet activity; SectorChart and its options; Interactive visualization of financial data; The DateListPlot function; Adding interactivity - preliminaries; Intermission - Graphics and Show; Adding interactivity - Dynamic and Refresh; Isocontour and molecular visualization; Introduction to isocontours; Example project - protein molecule visualization; Loading and visualizing the protein molecule; Preparing the isocontour plots; Adding interactivity - manipulate; Isosurface and styling
Thinking like a visualization scientist - isovalue analysisFurther reading; Summary; Chapter 4: Statistical and Information Visualization; Statistical visualization; The swiss bank notes dataset; Histograms and charts; Histogram; PairedHistogram; Histogram3D; PieChart; BubbleChart; Choosing appropriate plots; A glimpse of high-dimensional data; Similarity maps; Projecting information to low dimensions; Visualizing genuine and counterfeit clusters; Similarity map for smaller datasets; Things that can (and will) go wrong; Text visualization; A modified word cloud; Cleaning the data
The basic algorithmCode and explanation; Graphs and networks; A basic graph visualization; Representing graphs in Mathematica; Visualizing the Les Misérables network; Highlighting centrality measures; Other graph layouts; 3D layouts; Chord diagrams; Code and explanation; Tweaking the visualization; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 5: Maps and Aesthetics; Map visualization; The GeoGraphics package; A map of our current location; Plotting a path on the map; Interactivity in GeoGraphics; Anatomy of a map visualization engine; The visual interface; Code and explanation
Aesthetics in visualization
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Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821951103321 |