Introduction What Is Visualization? History of Visualization Relationship between Visualization and Other Fields The Visualization Process Pseudocode Conventions The Scatterplot The Role of the User Related Readings Exercises Projects Data Foundations Types of Data Structure within and between Records Data Preprocessing Data Sets Used in This Book Related Readings Exercises Projects Human Perception and InformationProcessing What Is Perception? Physiology Perceptual Processing Perception in Visualization Metrics Related Readings Exercises Projects Visualization Foundations The Visualization P.Abstract: Introduction What Is Visualization? History of Visualization Relationship between Visualization and Other Fields The Visualization Process Pseudocode Conventions The Scatterplot The Role of the User Related Readings Exercises Projects Data Foundations Types of Data Structure within and between Records Data Preprocessing Data Sets Used in This Book Related Readings Exercises Projects Human Perception and Information Processing What Is Perception? Physiology Perceptual Processing Perception in Visualization Metrics Related Readings Exercises Projects Visualization Foundations The Visualization P