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Practical Charts: The Essential Guide .. by Nicholas P. Desbarats EPUB
It's surprisingly tricky to design simple, "everyday" charts for reports and presentations.
Even experienced data pros and major news media outlets often create charts that leave audiences bored, unconvinced, confused, or—worst of all—that accidentally misrepresent the underlying data. Why does this happen? Well, design decisions like choosing a chart type, choosing colors, and deciding what range a scale should span require a surprising amount of expertise to get right.
Practical Charts provides easy-to-follow, concrete guidelines that quickly enable chart makers of any experience level to design expert-level charts that are clear and compelling. Readers will learn how to tackle over 90% of the chart design challenges that arise in real-world situations and how to avoid over 90% of the common mistakes that chart creators make.
Written in an entertaining, jargon-free style by globally recognized data visualization expert Nick Desbarats, Practical Charts condenses the courses that he's delivered for NASA, The United Nations, Blomberg, Visa, Yale University, and many others into an easy-to-read book that includes...
When to use 30 essential chart types
17 chart design cheat sheets
Over 180 key takeaways
Designing simple, "everyday" charts for reports and presentations is surprisingly tricky...
• "Should I use a stacked bar chart or regular bar chart for this chart? Or a pie chart?"
• "Do I have to extend the scale in this chart to zero, or can I just show part of the scale?"
• "This one very large value is messing up my whole chart. What should I do?"
Unfortunately, chart creators often make these—and many other—design choices poorly, leaving chart readers confused, bored, unconvinced or misled. Even major news media outlets, research organizations, and government agencies often publish charts that flop with audiences or, worse yet, accidentally misrepresent the data.
What this book will teach you
Practical Charts provides highly specific, hands-on, easy-to-learn guidelines for choosing chart types, choosing colors, and making all other essential design choices, as well as guidance on how to avoid dozens of common chart design mistakes. Ultimately, you'll learn how to make charts that "do their job," whether that job is to answer a question for the reader, persuade them to take a particular action, or any other purpose that might prompt you to create a chart.
Reviews
"Thorough and comprehensive guidance on everything from choosing appropriate chart types to writing better chart titles and annotations. An essential guide for data visualization beginners and experienced data pros alike."
-- Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, University of Miami, author, "The Art of Insight"
"My go-to resource for guidance on how to create charts that are clear, engaging, and accurate. Nick's super-specific guidelines and examples are invaluable. "
-- Stacey Barr, author, "Practical Performance Measurement" and "Prove It!"
"...the 'cheat sheets' alone are worth the price of the book, enabling even novices to make expert-level chart design choices reliably."
-- Andy Cotgreave, co-author, "The Big Book of Dashboards"
"This book demystifies the 'art' of data visualization, describing many of the (often unwritten) guidelines and principles that help charts do their job quickly and easily. It is essential material for any class on data, charts, and graphs."
-- Simon Queenborough, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Yale University
About the Author
As an independent educator and consultant, Nick Desbarats has taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Yale University, Marathon Oil, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, The Central Bank of Tanzania, and many others.
He regularly delivers keynote or main-stage talks at major data conferences such as Tableau Conference, TDWI World Conference, SAS Explorers, Data Innovation Summit, and others, and his articles in The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) are among the publication's most widely read.
Nick was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design courses, which he taught from 2014 until launching his own courses in 2019. Prior to that, Nick held senior executive positions at several software companies and was a cofounder of BitFlash Inc., which raised over 20M in venture financing and was sold to OpenText Corporation. In 2012, Nick was granted a United States patent in the decision-support field.
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Practical Charts: The Essential Guide .. by Nicholas P. Desbarats EPUB
It's surprisingly tricky to design simple, "everyday" charts for reports and presentations.
Even experienced data pros and major news media outlets often create charts that leave audiences bored, unconvinced, confused, or—worst of all—that accidentally misrepresent the underlying data. Why does this happen? Well, design decisions like choosing a chart type, choosing colors, and deciding what range a scale should span require a surprising amount of expertise to get right.
Practical Charts provides easy-to-follow, concrete guidelines that quickly enable chart makers of any experience level to design expert-level charts that are clear and compelling. Readers will learn how to tackle over 90% of the chart design challenges that arise in real-world situations and how to avoid over 90% of the common mistakes that chart creators make.
Written in an entertaining, jargon-free style by globally recognized data visualization expert Nick Desbarats, Practical Charts condenses the courses that he's delivered for NASA, The United Nations, Blomberg, Visa, Yale University, and many others into an easy-to-read book that includes...
When to use 30 essential chart types
17 chart design cheat sheets
Over 180 key takeaways
Designing simple, "everyday" charts for reports and presentations is surprisingly tricky...
• "Should I use a stacked bar chart or regular bar chart for this chart? Or a pie chart?"
• "Do I have to extend the scale in this chart to zero, or can I just show part of the scale?"
• "This one very large value is messing up my whole chart. What should I do?"
Unfortunately, chart creators often make these—and many other—design choices poorly, leaving chart readers confused, bored, unconvinced or misled. Even major news media outlets, research organizations, and government agencies often publish charts that flop with audiences or, worse yet, accidentally misrepresent the data.
What this book will teach you
Practical Charts provides highly specific, hands-on, easy-to-learn guidelines for choosing chart types, choosing colors, and making all other essential design choices, as well as guidance on how to avoid dozens of common chart design mistakes. Ultimately, you'll learn how to make charts that "do their job," whether that job is to answer a question for the reader, persuade them to take a particular action, or any other purpose that might prompt you to create a chart.
Reviews
"Thorough and comprehensive guidance on everything from choosing appropriate chart types to writing better chart titles and annotations. An essential guide for data visualization beginners and experienced data pros alike."
-- Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, University of Miami, author, "The Art of Insight"
"My go-to resource for guidance on how to create charts that are clear, engaging, and accurate. Nick's super-specific guidelines and examples are invaluable. "
-- Stacey Barr, author, "Practical Performance Measurement" and "Prove It!"
"...the 'cheat sheets' alone are worth the price of the book, enabling even novices to make expert-level chart design choices reliably."
-- Andy Cotgreave, co-author, "The Big Book of Dashboards"
"This book demystifies the 'art' of data visualization, describing many of the (often unwritten) guidelines and principles that help charts do their job quickly and easily. It is essential material for any class on data, charts, and graphs."
-- Simon Queenborough, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Yale University
About the Author
As an independent educator and consultant, Nick Desbarats has taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Yale University, Marathon Oil, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, The Central Bank of Tanzania, and many others.
He regularly delivers keynote or main-stage talks at major data conferences such as Tableau Conference, TDWI World Conference, SAS Explorers, Data Innovation Summit, and others, and his articles in The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) are among the publication's most widely read.
Nick was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design courses, which he taught from 2014 until launching his own courses in 2019. Prior to that, Nick held senior executive positions at several software companies and was a cofounder of BitFlash Inc., which raised over 20M in venture financing and was sold to OpenText Corporation. In 2012, Nick was granted a United States patent in the decision-support field.
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