Table of contents : Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Chapter 1 Introduction......Page 16 Chapter 2 The Ethics/Aesthetics of Information......Page 28 Chapter 3 The Art of Information Visualization......Page 46 Chapter 4 The Technology of Information Visualization......Page 70 Chapter 5 The Thought behind Creating a Visualization......Page 104 Chapter 6 The Data of Visualization......Page 140 Chapter 7 Real-World Visualizations and Text Visualizations......Page 172 Appendix A Data and Information Ecosystems......Page 188 Appendix B More about Data, Learning, and Visualization......Page 200 Index......Page 216 About the Author......Page 220