How charts work : understand and explain data with confidence /
Smith, Alan
How charts work : understand and explain data with confidence / Alan Smith. - First edition. - xvi, 317 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro y color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why you need this book -- Why charts matter -- Part 1 - Know your charts -- The FT visual vocabulary -- Charts of magnitude -- Charts of change over time -- Charts of correlation -- Charts of distribution -- Charts of flow -- Charts of ranking -- Charts of deviation -- Charts of part to whole -- Spatial is special -- Part 2 - Putting charts to work -- Using the visual vocabulary in your own organisation -- The science behind good charts -- Scales of justice, axes of evil -- The best charts are well written -- Designing for charts -- Visualising uncertainty - a case study.
"Every modern data visualisation expert has an opinion on Nightingale's graphs. Some find them scintillating, others confusing or even misleading. But, to my mind, there is something shockingly, brilliantly modern about the battle she decided to fight, and the way she used persuasive data visualisations as her weapon. More than ever, we need to understand how data visualisation works. We need to understand it as consumers - who may be enlightened or bamboozled, depending on our own "graphicacy" and the choices made by the producers of graphs. And we need to understand data visualisation as producers. Graphs and diagrams are powerful tools, supercharged by the ready availability of data and versatile software. But like any tool, they can be used skilfully or clumsily. They may be used to build something wonderful or repurposed with sinister intent"--
9781292342795 (paperback) 129234279X (paperback)
2022027614
Information visualization.
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Visualización de la información
Gráficas por computador
Informática --Métodos gráficos
Estadística --Métodos gráficos
QA 76.9 / S642h 2022
001.4/226
How charts work : understand and explain data with confidence / Alan Smith. - First edition. - xvi, 317 páginas : ilustraciones (blanco y negro y color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why you need this book -- Why charts matter -- Part 1 - Know your charts -- The FT visual vocabulary -- Charts of magnitude -- Charts of change over time -- Charts of correlation -- Charts of distribution -- Charts of flow -- Charts of ranking -- Charts of deviation -- Charts of part to whole -- Spatial is special -- Part 2 - Putting charts to work -- Using the visual vocabulary in your own organisation -- The science behind good charts -- Scales of justice, axes of evil -- The best charts are well written -- Designing for charts -- Visualising uncertainty - a case study.
"Every modern data visualisation expert has an opinion on Nightingale's graphs. Some find them scintillating, others confusing or even misleading. But, to my mind, there is something shockingly, brilliantly modern about the battle she decided to fight, and the way she used persuasive data visualisations as her weapon. More than ever, we need to understand how data visualisation works. We need to understand it as consumers - who may be enlightened or bamboozled, depending on our own "graphicacy" and the choices made by the producers of graphs. And we need to understand data visualisation as producers. Graphs and diagrams are powerful tools, supercharged by the ready availability of data and versatile software. But like any tool, they can be used skilfully or clumsily. They may be used to build something wonderful or repurposed with sinister intent"--
9781292342795 (paperback) 129234279X (paperback)
2022027614
Information visualization.
Charts, diagrams, etc.
Visualización de la información
Gráficas por computador
Informática --Métodos gráficos
Estadística --Métodos gráficos
QA 76.9 / S642h 2022
001.4/226