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Kieran Healy is an Irish sociologist, a professor of sociology at Duke University, a member of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke, and a regular visitor to the Research School in Social Science (RSSS) at the Australian National University.
Kieran Healy is a sociologist who studies exchange, classification, and data visualization. His website offers his publications, working papers, code, data, and occasional writing on various topics.
Learn how to use R and ggplot to create effective and beautiful graphics from data. This book covers the principles, methods, and examples of data visualization for beginners and advanced users.
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“Finally! A data visualization guide that is simultaneously practical and elegant. Healy combines the beauty and insight of Tufte with the concrete helpfulness of Stack Exchange. Data Visualization is brimming with insights into how quantitative analysts can use visualization as a tool for understanding and communication. A must-read for anyone who...
Data Visualizationteaches the reader how to think about good data visualization, and how to do it. It begins with a discussion of some core ideas about how we see graphs, what makes some of them better than others, and how to begin cultivating good judgment about visualization. Then, through a series of worked examples, the book shows you how to bu...
The socviz R package provides datasets, functions, and a course packet to use as you work through the book yourself or for use in the classroom. You can learn more about it at its website. The code for almost all the figures in the book (along with other examples and supplementary material) is included in a series of R Markdown notebooks contained ...
Kieran Healy is the author of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, a book that teaches how to make and refine data visualizations with R and ggplot2. He also maintains a website with a draft version of the manuscript, teaching and learning materials, and code examples.
Jun 1, 2024 · Kieran Healy is a sociologist who studies data visualization, networks, and social theory. His website showcases some of his work, including books, articles, and recent writing on New York City demographics.
Jan 29, 2003 · Articles 1–20. Duke University - Cited by 6,232 - Sociology - Social Theory - Data Visualization - Culture - Markets.
Professor of Sociology. Office location. 268 Sociology/Psychology BLD, BOX_90088, Durham, NC 27708. (919) 660-5614. kieran.healy@duke.edu. Much of my research has been about exchange in human blood and organs, cultural goods, software, and ideas.
