Data visualization in sociology

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 105-128

  Healy, Kieran ^a   Moody, James ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory data analysis; Methods; Statistics; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905274912     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071312-145551     Document Type: Review

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