Information Graphics
by Robert L. Harris · first published 1999
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For anyone involved in making presentations, producing written work or quantifying data, this book describes each type of information graphic, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages.
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Bought Few's book. Information design is something I'm really interested in, yet I haven't found too many resources on it, other than Tufte's books (obviously) and a couple others. One of my favorites is Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert Harris [1]. It offers little discussion, but is an excellent catalog of all of the various ways you can represent data. For more exploratory information…
on “Information Dashboard Design, 2nd Edition” ↗…of Georgia Lupi and Accurat: http://giorgialupi.net and http://www.accurat.it. 5. Infosthetics Blog: http://infosthetics.com. 6. Work of Gregor Aisch from New York Times: http://driven-by-data.net 7. Information Graphics book from Taschen: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/design/all/04984/f... The last one is a huge brick with many interesting and/or beautiful examples and it also exists as iBook for about $10!…
on “Ask HN: Designing Useful Dashboards” ↗You may also like Information Graphics: https://www.taschen.com/en/books/graphic-design/44653/inform...
on “I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph” ↗…is great, but he's extremely heavy and a bit dated. He is about 80% brilliant 20% completely missing the point. It's very strange. If you are looking for a smaller book I've found the WSJ Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong to be pretty decent and pretty straight forward, and it's about 100 pages. It's not too focused on finance either, although that's what I got it for (I do front end development for financial…
on “Ask HN: Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization?” ↗