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How long does it take to read Data Visualization?

Kieran Healy

Data Visualization by Kieran Healy takes about 5 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 26 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2018. 296 pages, about 81,400 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 3 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 26 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data visualization builds the reader's expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language ...."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects: Information visualization, Visual analytics

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