Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks by Jona

Description: Better Data Visualizations by Jonathan Schwabish This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through the noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and recall information. Yet many researchers were never taught how to present their work visually. This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the dos and donts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a charts design. Schwabish surveys more than eighty visualization types, from histograms to horizon charts, ridgeline plots to choropleth maps, and explains how each has its place in the visual toolkit. It might seem intimidating, but everyone can learn how to create compelling, effective data visualizations. This book will guide you as you define your audience and goals, choose the graph that best fits for your data, and clearly communicate your message. Author Biography Jonathan Schwabish is an economist and writer, teacher, and creator of policy-relevant data visualizations. He helps nonprofits, research institutions, and governments at all levels improve how they communicate their work and findings to their colleagues, partners, clients, and constituents. He is the author of Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (Columbia, 2016). Table of Contents IntroductionPart I: Principles of Data Visualization1. Visual Processing and Perceptual Rankings2. Five Guidelines for Better Data Visualizations3. Form and FunctionPart II: Chart Types4. Comparing Categories5. Time6. Distribution7. Geospatial8. Relationship9. Part-to-Whole10. Qualitative11. TablesPart III: Designing and Redesigning Your Visual12. Developing a Data Visualization Style Guide13. RedesignsConclusionAppendix 1. Data Visualization ToolsAppendix 2. Further Reading and ResourcesAcknowledgmentsReferencesIndex Review An excellent primer for anyone who wants to display quantitative information clearly and powerfully. -- Robert B. Reich, Chancellors Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, and former U.S. secretary of laborThis is an immensely practical guide to more effective communication through data visualization. From basic principles, to an extensive taxonomy of visualization types, to developing a style guide, this will be an invaluable and accessible read for anyone who needs to turn data into information. -- Mara Averick, RStudioToo often, good data falls prey to bad or lazy visualizations. At last, an indispensable guide for presenting your work intelligibly and compellingly. -- DJ Patil, former U.S. chief data scientistFor many of us, its tough to understand data without visuals. But visualizing data is hard! This book is the authoritative guide. Its terrific—and spectacularly useful. -- Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, and author of Too Much InformationA stellar variety and number of visualizations are included in these pages, an enjoyable-to-read encyclopedia of graphs. Jonathan Schwabish provides practical considerations for when to use which visual and thoughtful design guidelines in this excellent resource for those who work and communicate with data. Youll be inspired and—as promised—learn better data visualization! -- Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, author of Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business ProfessionalsNavigating the myriad chart types available today can be a daunting experience. This book provides you with not only a guiding light but also an important foundation in the burgeoning field of data visualization. You will want to keep its set of principles and guidelines right next to you in your next project. -- Manuel Lima, author of The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of KnowledgeBetter Data Visualizations carefully teaches the reader when to use which type of visualization and why. This engaging book takes you from the basics to the entire breadth of todays visualization methods. There are hundreds of clear, elegant, and varied visualizations to give you ideas for your own work. -- Max Roser, founder and director, Our World in DataBetter Data Visualizations is a practical guide to a large catalogue of chart types. No other book introduces the reader to specific chart types with such detail and finesse. It is an excellent resource for students, analysts, and researchers alike. -- Alberto Cairo, author of How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual InformationNot only is the book well designed from fonts to white space, its also well written and enjoyable to read. * Technical Communication * Review Quote Too often, good data falls prey to bad or lazy visualizations. At last, an indispensable guide for presenting your work intelligibly and compellingly. Details ISBN0231193114 Publisher Columbia University Press ISBN-10 0231193114 ISBN-13 9780231193115 Format Paperback Author Jonathan Schwabish Language English Year 2021 Pages 464 Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 533 color charts, graphs, and illustrations. 1 table NZ Release Date 2021-02-09 US Release Date 2021-02-09 Subtitle A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks Publication Date 2021-02-09 UK Release Date 2021-02-09 DEWEY 001.4226 Audience General AU Release Date 2021-02-08 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:132100968;

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