Good charts
by Scott Berinato · first published 2016
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"A good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication. For a long time, "dataviz" was left to specialists-data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new generation of tools and massive amounts of available data make it easy for anyone to create visualizations that communicate ideas far more effectively than generic spreadsheet charts ever could. What's more, building good charts is quickly becoming a need-to-have skill for managers-if you're not doing it, another manager is, and they're getting noticed
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I've been learning this stuff for work some. I've found that Good Charts: The HBR Guide to making Smarter More Persuasive Data Visualizations[1] to be helpful. Also the Wall Street Guide to Info Graphics[2] is a good 'recipe' book for graphs/charts. 1. https://www.amazon.com/Good-Charts-Smarter-Persuasive-Visual... 2.…
on “Ask HN: Data visualization consultant” ↗I'm reading the book Good Charts (https://hbr.org/product/good-charts-the-hbr-guide-to-making-...) and it talked about (and linked) your paper. I found it quite interesting, so I submitted it here in case others did as well.
on “Ranking Visualizations of Correlation Using Weber’s Law [pdf]” ↗