Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (original 2011; edition 2011)

by Nathan Yau (Author)

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Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern age Data doesn?t decrease; it is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn?t it be wonderful if we could actually visualize data in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell a story in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius of Nathan Yau, we can. With this full-color book, data visualization guru and author Nathan Yau uses step-by-step tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell stories with data. He explains… (more)

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Title:	Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
Authors:	Nathan Yau (Author)
Info:	Wiley (2011), Edition: 1, 384 pages
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An attractive book. You can learn several things from it, but I don't think you're going to pick up Python or Adobe Illustrator or any Statistics from it. (

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markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |

What sets this book apart from most other books on data visualization (and there are quite a few!) is that Nathan Yau focuses strongly on the craft skills of making visualizations. He presents a range of tools and techniques that are, if not timeless, then at least reasonably useful and relevant even seven years after initial publication. The instructions on how to create effective visualizations are structured according to visualization purposes -- patterns, relationships, differences and so on -- and consistently delivered in a way that inspires own experimentation.

jonas.lowgren | Aug 21, 2018 |

Nice book on data visualization, but could have been much shorter, and contained much less code. We need a book written like this book that shares less about the how to the obtain the data and more on the thinking about and visualizing the data. (

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Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern age Data doesn?t decrease; it is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn?t it be wonderful if we could actually visualize data in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell a story in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius of Nathan Yau, we can. With this full-color book, data visualization guru and author Nathan Yau uses step-by-step tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell stories with data. He explains

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