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Doing the job of a Microsoft Office manual, a graphic design text, and a data visualization book in one, this book covers the full range of tasks, from procuring data to presenting a report and provides step-by-step instructions for creating visual data displays.

Charts, diagrams, etc. --- Presentation graphics software. --- Computer programs. --- Microsoft Office.

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Diagrammatic reasoning is crucial for human cognition. It is hard to think of any forms of science or knowledge without the "intermediary world" of diagrams and diagrammatic representation in thought experiments and/or processes, manifested in forms as divers as notes, tables, schemata, graphs, drawings and maps. Despite their phenomenological and structural-functional differences, these forms of representation share a number of important attributes and epistemic functions. Combining aspects of linguistic and pictorial symbolism, diagrams go beyond the traditional distinction between language and image. They do not only represent, yet intervene in what is represented. Their spatiality, materiality and operativity establish a dynamic tool to exteriorize thinking, thus contributing to the idea of the extended mind. They foster imagination and problem solving, facilitate orientation in knowledge spaces and the discovery of unsuspected relationships. How can the diagrammatic nature of cognitive and knowledge practices be theorized historically as well as systematically? This is what this volume explores by investigating the semiotic dimension of diagrams as to knowledge, information and reasoning, e.g., the 'thing-ness' of diagrams in the history of art, the range of diagrammatic reasoning in logic, mathematics, philosophy and the sciences in general, including the knowledge function of maps.

Cognitive psychology. --- Semiotics. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Psychology --- Cognition. --- Diagrams.

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This book treats graph colouring as an algorithmic problem, with a strong emphasis on practical applications. The author describes and analyses some of the best-known algorithms for colouring arbitrary graphs, focusing on whether these heuristics can provide optimal solutions in some cases; how they perform on graphs where the chromatic number is unknown; and whether they can produce better solutions than other algorithms for certain types of graphs, and why. The introductory chapters explain graph colouring, and bounds and constructive algorithms. The author then shows how advanced, modern techniques can be applied to classic real-world operational research problems such as seating plans, sports scheduling, and university timetabling. He includes many examples, suggestions for further reading, and historical notes, and the book is supplemented by a website with an online suite of downloadable code. The book will be of value to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in the areas of operations research, theoretical computer science, optimization, and computational intelligence. The reader should have elementary knowledge of sets, matrices, and enumerative combinatorics.

Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Charts, diagrams, etc. --- Graphic methods. --- Visual communication in science. --- Scientific illustration. --- Graphics --- Graphs --- Diagrams, charts, etc. --- Plots (Diagrams) --- Illustration, Scientific --- Science illustration --- Scientific literature --- Illustration --- Science --- Geometrical drawing --- Least squares --- Mathematics --- Mechanical drawing --- Art and science --- Illustration of books --- Drawing --- Technical illustration --- Scientific applications --- Computer software. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Operations research. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Optimization. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Mathematical and Computational Engineering. --- Algorithms. --- Decision making. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Decision making --- Foundations