Data at work best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel

Information visualization is a language. Like any language, it can be used for multiple purposes. A poem, a novel, and an essay all share the same language, but each one has its own set of rules. The same is true with information visualization: a product manager, statistician, and graphic designer e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Camões, Jorge
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, CA] New Riders 2016
Series:Voices that matter
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The building blocks of data visualization
  • Visual perception
  • Beyond visual perception
  • Data preparation
  • Data visualization
  • Data discovery, analysis, and communication
  • How to choose a chart
  • A sense of order
  • Parts of a whole : composition charts
  • Scattered data
  • Change over time
  • Relationships
  • Profiling
  • Designing for effectiveness
  • Color : beyond aesthetics
  • Conclusion