Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (history of information and data visualization and guide to today's innovative applications)

Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (history of information and data visualization and guide to today's innovative applications)

Manuel Lima's smash hit <i>Visual Complexity</em> is now available in paperback. This groundbreaking 2011 book--the first to combine a thorough history of information visualization with a detailed look at today's most innovative applications--clearly illustrates why making meaningful connections inside complex data networks has emerged as one of the biggest challenges in twenty-first-century design. From diagramming networks of friends on Facebook to depicting interactions among proteins in a human cell, <em>Visual Complexity</i> presents one hundred of the most interesting examples of information visualization by the field's leading practitioners.