8.7 TYPOGRAPHIC BAR CHARTS WITH STACKED LABELS 165
8.8 HANDLING MANY CATEGORIES 168
8.8.1 Many Different Visual Attributes 168
8.8.2 Visual Attributes Applied to Individual Characters 171
8.8.3 Decoding vs. Noticing a Difference 171
8.8.4 Going Further 172
8.9 FURTHER READING 172
Chapter 9 ◾ Maps and Ordered Data 175
9.1 PROBLEMS WITH THEMATIC MAPS 176
9.2 TYPOGRAPHIC THEMATIC MAP WITH A SINGLE ORDERED
VARIABLE 177
9.3 MULTI-VARIATE TYPOGRAPHIC THEMATIC MAPS 179
9.4 HANDLING LONG LABELS 180
9.5 SCALING TO THOUSANDS OF LABELS 180
9.6 NON-DISTORTED TYPOGRAPHIC MAPS 181
9.7 TYPOGRAPHIC SCOPE: PARAGRAPHS AND GLYPHS 181
9.8 DO TYPOGRAPHIC THEMATIC MAPS WORK? 184
9.9 TYPOGRAPHIC ORDERING WITH OTHER ATTRIBUTES AND
LAYOUTS 186
9.10 FURTHER READING 187
Chapter 10 ◾ Ratios and Quantitative Data 189
10.1 QUANTITATIVE DATA 189
10.2 PROPORTIONS ALONG A STRING (BAR CHARTS WITH LONG
LABELS) 190
10.2.1 Proportions along Words and Phrases 190
10.2.2 Proportions along Lines of Text 191
10.2.3 Proportions to Indicate Ranges 191
10.2.4 Proportions, Distributions, and Areas 192
10.2.5 Proportions in Paragraphs 196
10.2.6 Stacked Proportions 200
10.2.7 Multiple Proportions 200
10.2.8 Semantic Proportions and Expressive Text 203
10.3 POSITIONS ALONG A STRING 204
10.4 CAVEATS, ISSUES, AND LIMITATIONS 205
Part IV Text Layouts
Chapter 11 ◾ Prose and Prosody 211
11.1 ENHANCED READING 211
11.2 SKIM FORMATTING 212
11.3 FORMATTING LETTERS FOR PRONUNCIATION, SPELLING, AND
PROSODY 218
11.4 FURTHER READING 220
Chapter 12 ◾ SparkWords 221
12.1 HISTORIC PRECEDENT FOR SPARKWORDS 221
12.2 SPARKWORDS DEFINED 222
12.3 SPARKWORDS IN NARRATIVE 222
12.3.1 Categoric SparkWords 222
12.3.2 Ordered SparkWords 223
12.3.3 Quantitative SparkWords 228
12.4 SPARKWORDS IN LISTS 230
12.5 SPARKWORDS IN TABLES 230
12.5.1 Orders of Magnitude 230
12.5.2 Tables with Data Added into Typographic Formats 233
12.6 FURTHER READING 237
Chapter 13 ◾ Opportunity and Checklist 239
13.1 VALIDATION 242
13.2 CHECKLIST 242
13.2.1 Language 242
13.2.2 Legibility 243
13.2.3 Alphanumeric Codes 244
13.2.4 Formats 244
13.2.5 Long Labels 245
13.2.6 Layout Challenges 246
13.2.7 Typeface 246
13.2.8 Interactions 247
13.2.9 More 247
Chapter 14 ◾ References 249
14.1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 249
14.2 PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH 249
BIBLIOGRAPHY 252
INDEX, 263
Visualizing with Text uncovers the rich palette of text elements usable in visualizations from simple labels through to documents. Using a multidisciplinary research effort spanning across fields including visualization, typography, and cartography, it builds a solid foundation for the design space of text in visualization. The book illustrates many new kinds of visualizations, including microtext lines, skim formatting, and typographic sets that solve some of the shortcomings of well-known visualization techniques.
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Charts, diagrams Graphic design (Typography) Text processing (Computer science)