Data Visualization, Part 1: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 139 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118793412 ISBN 13: 9781118793411

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2013

Synopsis

Do you communicate data and information to stakeholders? This issue is Part 1 of a two-part series on data visualization and evaluation. In Part 1, we introduce recent developments in the quantitative and qualitative data visualization field and provide a historical perspective on data visualization, its potential role in evaluation practice, and future directions. It discusses:

• Quantitative visualization methods such as tree maps
• Sparklines
• Web-based interactive visualization
• Different types of qualitative data visualizations, along
  with examples in various evaluation contexts
• A toolography describing additional data visualization tools
  and software, along with their major strengths and limitations.

Intended as a guidance for understanding and designing data visualizations, this issue introduces fundamental concepts and links them to daily practice.

This is the 139th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Evaluation, an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This issue aims to reach a broad and diverse set of practicing evaluators and researchers who are regularly required to communicate data and information to stakeholders. The issue is Part 1 of a two-part series on data visualization and evaluation. In Part 1, we introduce the evaluation community to recent developments in the quantitative and qualitative data visualization field and provide a historical perspective on data visualization, its potential role in evaluation practice, and future directions. The chapters in this part will discuss quantitative visualization methods such as tree maps, sparklines, and Web-based interactive visualization. The qualitative visualization chapter describes a conceptual framework for understanding the different types of qualitative data visualizations before providing examples of visualizations in various evaluation contexts. The end of Part 1 contains a toolography describing additional data visualization tools and software, along with brief descriptions of their major strengths and limitations. Our goal throughout this series is to introduce some fundamental concepts in data visualization, linked to daily practice. This volume is intended as a reference and as a source for guidance and ideas for evaluators who are interested in, designing, and struggling with data visualizations.

About the Author

Tarek Azzam is the editor of Data Visualization, Part 1: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 139, published by Wiley.

Stephanie Evergreen is the editor of Data Visualization, Part 1: New Directions for Evaluation, Number 139, published by Wiley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118793412
• ISBN 13: 9781118793411
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Editor: Azzam Tarek, Evergreen Stephanie