Introduction: Why Do We Visualize Data and What Is This Book About?
Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszyńska, James W. Vaupel · The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis · 2017
Abstract Introduction: Why do we visualize data and what is this book about? The introductory chapter describes the three rationales to visualize data: exploration, confirmation and presentation, and discusses the developments in computer hardware, software and connectivity that were instrumental for the recent increased interest in visualizing data.