Recommended Reading

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Recommended Reading

This is meant to provided references to high quality works on visualizing data. If you know of a great reference that was left out, please add it! If you have read one of these and are inclined, please share your thoughts.

• John M. Chambers, William S. Cleveland, Beat Kleiner, and Paul A. Tukey. (1983). Graphical methods for Data Analysis. Wadsworth.
  Note: I had difficulty locating this book. It looks like one can find it used, and some libraries have it.

• William S. Cleveland (Editor). (1988). The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Graphics 1965–1985, Volume V. Chapman & Hall, New York, NY.
  ISBN-10: 0412992612 ISBN-13: 978-0412992612
  Amazon.com

• William Cleveland. (1993). A model for studying display methods of statistical graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2:323–364.
  PS file from Bell Labs
  Stable jstor link

• William S. Cleveland. (1993). Visualizing Data. Hobart Press.
  ISBN-10: 0963488406 ISBN-13: 978-0963488404
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• William S. Cleveland. (1994). The Elements of Graphing Data (Second ed.). Hobart Press.
  ISBN-10: 0963488414 ISBN-13: 978-0963488411
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• Michael Friendly. (2000). Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Carey, NC.
  ISBN-10: 1580256600 ISBN-13: 978-1580256605
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• Björn Gustavii. (2008). How to write and illustrate a scientific paper. Cambridge University Press.
  ISBN-10: 052170393X ISBN-13: 978-0521703932
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  Note: This book covers general writing but also a chapter on graphics.

• Paul Murrell. (1998). Investigations in Graphical Statistics. PhD thesis, The University of Auckland.
  Note: I could not locate any links, but it is a good excuse to visit New Zealand.

• Paul Murrell. (2005). R Graphics. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
  ISBN-10: 158488486X ISBN-13: 978-1584884866
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• Naomi B. Robbins. (2004). Creating More Effective Graphs. Wiley, New York.
  ISBN-10: 047127402X ISBN-13: 978-0471274025
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• Edward R. Tufte. (1990). Envisioning Information (Fourth ed.). Graphics Press.
  ISBN-10: 0961392118 ISBN-13: 978-0961392116
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• Edward R. Tufte. (1997). Visual Explanations. Graphics Press.
  ISBN-10: 0961392126 ISBN-13: 978-0961392123
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• Edward R. Tufte. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Second ed.). Graphics Press.
  ISBN-10: 0961392142 ISBN-13: 978-0961392147
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• Edward R. Tufte. (2006). Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press.
  ISBN-10: 0961392177 ISBN-13: 978-0961392178
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• John W. Tukey. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Massachusetts.
  ISBN-10: 0201076160 ISBN-13: 978-0201076165
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• Howard Wainer & David Thissen. (1981). Graphical data analysis. Annual Review of Psychology, 32:191–241. doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.32.020181.001203
  Annual Reviews Link (may not be stable)

• Howard Wainer. (1984). How to Display Data Badly. The American Statistician, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 137–147.
  A link to the PDF
  Stable jstor link

• Howard Wainer. (2000). Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception From Napoleon Bonaparte To Ross Perot. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey.
  ISBN-10: 0805838783 ISBN-13: 978-0805838787
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• Howard Wainer. (2005). Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  ISBN-10: 0691103011 ISBN-13: 978-0691103013
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• Hadley Wickham. (2009). ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Second ed.). Springer, New York.
  ISBN-10: 0387981403 ISBN-13: 978-0387981406
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• Leland Wilkinson. (2005). The Grammar of Graphics (Second ed.). Springer, New York.
  ISBN-10: 0387245448 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-24544-7
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Websites

• Stephen Few. Perceptual Edge. There is a link to his website and a direct link to his library page (which contains a wealth of references)
  Website
  Library

• Kaiser Fung. junkcharts (a blog that discusses charts and graphs).
  Link