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Preface xvii
Audience
The primary audience of this book is students in a first vis course,
particularly at the graduate level but also at the advanced under-
graduate level. While admittedly written from a computer scien-
tist’s point of view, the book aims to be accessible to a broad audi-
ence including students in geography, library science, and design.
It does not assume any experience with programming, mathemat-
ics, human–computer interaction, cartography, or graphic design;
for those who do have such a background, some of the terms that
I define in this book are connected with the specialized vocabu-
lary from these areas through notes in the margins. Other au-
diences are people from other fields with an interest in vis, who
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