Kieran Healy announces a second edition of 'Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction', to be published by Princeton University Press. A full draft is available at socviz.co. The revision updates all code for ggplot 4 and R 4.5+, thoroughly rewrites the back half of the book to cover modern mapping (sf package) and model result extraction (marginaleffects package), and shifts toward a pipeline-based approach to writing plots. The author also addresses the rise of LLMs and coding agents, arguing that while they are powerful, learning to do good graphical work yourself remains essential for developing the judgment to evaluate quality and correctness.
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