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Front Matter
5 chapters2
Part I: Part I: Seeing Data
6 chapters- Part I: Seeing Data
- Chapter 1: Why Visualization Matters: The Case for Showing, Not Just Telling
- Chapter 2: How the Eye Sees — Pre-Attentive Processing and Visual Encoding
- Chapter 3: Color — The Most Powerful and Most Abused Visual Variable
- Chapter 4: Lies, Distortions, and Honest Charts — The Ethics of Visualization
- Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Chart: A Decision Framework for Any Data and Any Question
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Part II: Part II: Design Principles
5 chapters4
Part III: Part III: matplotlib
7 chapters- Part III: matplotlib
- Chapter 10: matplotlib Architecture: Figures, Axes, and the Object-Oriented API
- Chapter 11: Essential Chart Types in matplotlib
- Chapter 12: Customization Mastery: Colors, Styles, Labels, Legends, and Themes
- Chapter 13: Subplots, GridSpec, and Multi-Panel Figures
- Chapter 14: Specialized matplotlib Charts
- Chapter 15: Animation and Interactivity in matplotlib
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Part IV: Part IV: seaborn
5 chapters6
Part V: Part V: Interactive Visualization
6 chapters- Part V: Interactive Visualization
- Chapter 20: Plotly Express — Interactive Charts in One Line of Code
- Chapter 21: Plotly Graph Objects — Full Customization and Complex Layouts
- Chapter 22: Altair — Declarative Visualization and the Grammar of Graphics
- Chapter 23: Geospatial Visualization — Maps, Choropleths, and Location Data
- Chapter 24: Network and Graph Visualization — Nodes, Edges, and Relationships
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Part VI: Part VI: Specialized Domains
5 chapters- Part VI: Specialized Domains
- Chapter 25: Time Series Visualization — Trends, Seasonality, and Change Over Time
- Chapter 26: Text and NLP Visualization — Word Clouds, Topic Models, and Sentiment
- Chapter 27: Statistical and Scientific Visualization — Publication-Ready Figures
- Chapter 28: Big Data Visualization — When You Have a Million Points
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Part VII: Part VII: Dashboards and Production
6 chapters- Part VII: Dashboards and Production
- Chapter 29: Building Dashboards with Streamlit
- Chapter 30: Building Dashboards with Dash
- Chapter 31: Automated Reporting — Generating Charts for PDFs, Slides, and Emails
- Chapter 32: Theming, Branding, and Style Guides — Building a Visual Identity
- Chapter 33: The Visualization Workflow — From Question to Published Chart
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Part VIII: Part VIII: Capstone and Gallery
3 chapters10
Appendices
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