Overview

Information visualisation is a language. Like any language, it can be used for multiple purposes. A poem, a novel, and an essay all share the same language, but each one has its own set of rules. The same is true with information visualisation: a product manager, statistician, and graphic designer each approach visualisation from different perspectives. Data at Work was written with you, the spreadsheet user, in mind. This book will teach you how to think about and organise data in ways that directly relate to your work, using the skills you already have. In other words, you don’t need to be a graphic designer to create functional, elegant charts: this book will show you how. Although all of the examples in this book were created in Microsoft Excel, this is not a book about how to use Excel. Data at Work will help you to know which type of chart to use and how to format it, regardless of which spreadsheet application you use and whether or not you have any design experience. In this book, you’ll learn how to extract, clean, and transform data; sort data points to identify patterns and detect outliers; and understand how and when to use a variety of data visualisations including bar charts, slope charts, strip charts, scatter plots, bubble charts, boxplots, and more.

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Author:   Jorge Camões
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   New Riders Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.804kg
ISBN:  

9780134268637

ISBN 10:   0134268636
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   22 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1.     The building blocks 2.     Human perception 3.     Beyond perception 4.     Preparing the data 5.     Information visualization 6.     Discovery and communication 7.     How to choose a chart 8.     Comparisons 9.     Composition 10.    Distribution 11.    Evolution 12.    Relationships 13.    Profiling 14.    Aesthetics in visualization 15.    Color: how to avoid catastrophe 16.    Formatting the chart 17.    Conclusions

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Jorge Camões has been consulting businesses on how to effectively use information visualizations since 2010 with clients that include the global retail giant, IKEA. Prior to starting his consulting business, Camões worked for 10 years in the business intelligence department of the Portuguese subsidiary of Merck & Co. Camões runs the popular data visualization blog, Excelcharts.com, which has 30K monthly visitors. He works from his home in Lisbon, Portugal.

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