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Good Charts Workbook : Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Making Better Data Visualizations.

By: Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, 2019Copyright date: 2019Description: viii, 279 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781633696174
  • 1633696170
  • 1633697290
  • 9781633697294
  • 9781633697300
  • 1633697304
Other title:
  • Good charts work book
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 658.45 23
LOC classification:
  • HF5718.22 .B476 2019
Contents:
How do I start? -- Build skills. Controlling color -- Crafting for clarity -- Choosing chart types -- Practicing persuasion -- Capturing concepts -- Make good charts. Talk, sketch, prototype -- The monthly report -- The plastic problem presentation -- Appendix A: Glossary of chart types -- Appendix B: Chart type guide -- Appendix C: Keywords for chart types.
Summary: "You know right away when you see an effective chart or graphic. It hits you with an immediate sense of its meaning and impact. But what actually makes it clearer, sharper, and more effective? If you're ready to create your own "good charts"--Data visualizations that powerfully communicate your ideas and research and that advance your career--the Good Charts Workbook is the hands-on guide you've been looking for. The original Good Charts changed the landscape by helping readers understand how to think visually and by laying out a process for creating powerful data visualizations. Now, the Good Charts Workbook provides tools, exercises, and practical insights to help people in all kinds of enterprises gain the skills they need to get started."--Provided by publisher
List(s) this item appears in: 2022 New Titles
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab HF5718.22 .B476 2019 1 Available 50583020021170
Total holds: 0

How do I start? -- Build skills. Controlling color -- Crafting for clarity -- Choosing chart types -- Practicing persuasion -- Capturing concepts -- Make good charts. Talk, sketch, prototype -- The monthly report -- The plastic problem presentation -- Appendix A: Glossary of chart types -- Appendix B: Chart type guide -- Appendix C: Keywords for chart types.

"You know right away when you see an effective chart or graphic. It hits you with an immediate sense of its meaning and impact. But what actually makes it clearer, sharper, and more effective? If you're ready to create your own "good charts"--Data visualizations that powerfully communicate your ideas and research and that advance your career--the Good Charts Workbook is the hands-on guide you've been looking for. The original Good Charts changed the landscape by helping readers understand how to think visually and by laying out a process for creating powerful data visualizations. Now, the Good Charts Workbook provides tools, exercises, and practical insights to help people in all kinds of enterprises gain the skills they need to get started."--Provided by publisher

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