Antony Unwin is a professor of computer-oriented statistics and data analysis at the University of Augsburg. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Society, co-author of Graphics of Large Datasets, and co-editor of the Handbook of Data Visualization. His research focuses on data visualisation, especially in interactive graphics. His research group has developed several pieces of interactive graphics software and written packages for R.

Setting the Scene. Brief Review of the Literature and Background Materials. Examining Continuous Variables. Displaying Categorical Data. Looking for Structure: Dependency Relationships and Associations. Investigating Multivariate Continuous Data. Studying Multivariate Categorical Data. Getting an Overview. Graphics and Data Quality: How Good Are the Data?. Comparisons, Comparisons, Comparisons. Graphics for Time Series. Ensemble Graphics and Case Studies. Some Notes on Graphics with R. Summary. References. Indices.