Reddit mentions of Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring

Ecco la mia lista/elenco disordinato.

Mi piacerebbe spiegare il perché su ogni libro letto ma sarebbe troppo lungo. Se sei interessato ad un feedback in particolare, fammi sapere in un commento.

In generale: in questo periodo si trova molta letteratura; io consiglio i classici, perché in giro c'è molta bullshit e ho elencato anche tutta una serie di libri per acquisire conoscenza su skills complementari (es. negoziazione, persuasione).

Ho elencato i libri di Codice Edizioni a parte perché uno dei pochi editori che pubblica saggi su argomenti contemporanei come tecnologia e media.

Una parola in più la spendo per i libri di Mari e Munari: sono dei classici che vanno letti. Punto.

LIBRI

UX

• Communicating the User Experience: A Practical Guide for Creating Useful UX Documentation
  
• Sprint
  
• Lean UX : Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
  
  Design e comunicazione
  
  
• 25 modi per piantare un chiodo
  
• Guardare, pensare, progettare. Neuroscienze per il design
  
• Designing for People
  
• Design e comunicazione visiva. Contributo a una metodologia didattica
  
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
  Sul retro del tovagliolo. Come risolvere problemi e vendere idee con le immagini
  
  Data visualization
  
  
• L'arte funzionale. Infografica e visualizzazione delle informazioni
  
• Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring
  
  Usabilità
  
  
• The Design of Everyday Things
  
• Le leggi della semplicità
  
• Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  
  Tipografia
  
  
• Segni & simboli. Disegno, progetto e significato
  
• Sei proprio il mio typo. La vita segreta dei caratteri tipografici
  
  
  Negoziazione
  
  
• L'arte del negoziato
  
• Le armi della persuasione. Come e perché si finisce col dire di sì
  
  
  
  Codice edizioni
  
  
• L’ingenuità della rete
  
• Cos’è un designer
  
• Silicon Valley: i signori del silicio
  
• La coda lunga
  
• Surplus cognitivo
  
• Io vivo nel futuro
  
• Fab
  
  
  LINKS
  
  Community
  
  
• https://ux.stackexchange.com/
  
• https://stackoverflow.com/
  
• https://iot.stackexchange.com/
  
• https://interpersonal.stackexchange.com/
  
• https://security.stackexchange.com/
  
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/
  
  Aggregatori
  
  
• https://www.designernews.co/
  
• https://news.ycombinator.com/
  
• http://www.datatau.com/
  
  Ispirazione
  
  
• https://www.brainpickings.org/
  
• https://nuovoeutile.it/
  
  Essenziali
  
  
• https://alistapart.com/
  
• https://www.smashingmagazine.com
  
• http://uxmovement.com/
  
• https://www.uxmatters.com/
  
  Guru e pionieri
  
  
• https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog
  
• https://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/
  
• http://www.zeldman.com/
  
• https://meyerweb.com/
  
• https://www.lukew.com/
  
  Tipografia
  
  
• https://ilovetypography.com/
  
• http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/
  
  SEO
  
  
• https://webmasters.googleblog.com/
  
  Data Visualization
  
  
• https://flowingdata.com/
  
• https://informationisbeautiful.net/
  
  Interaction design, hacking
  
  
• https://blog.arduino.cc/
  
• https://hackaday.com/
  
• https://www.raspberrypi.org/
  
  Design generale
  
  
• http://www.spoon-tamago.com/
  
• https://www.fastcodesign.com/
  
• https://design-milk.com/
  
  
  Serie TV
  
  Black Mirror

there are a few really great resources that were mentioned already.

I found Tufte books a little bit abstract and more geared toward data visualization philosophy and not as practical as some of the other resources out there in terms of creating interactive, business-focused data visualizations. While I really like them, it may not be the first ones you grab.

I highly recommend books and blogs by these people---all but Stephen Few are active on Twitter (bolding the highest 3 recommendations):

Stephen Few:

• Book: Information Dashboard Design
  
• Book: Show me the Numbers
  
• Blog: Perceptual Edge (really succinct and opinionated articles. you can learn a lot by his support and criticism of visuals or books. Read the comments. He can be abrasive, but usually pretty enlightening)
  
  Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic:
  
  
• Book: Storytelling with Data (already shared but repeating for convenience) Super good at helping draw attention to the point you're trying to make within the visual and ensuring that you're using opinionated titles if in a presentation like Powerpoint or Keynote.
  
• Book: Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice (recently came out and is very hands on)
  
• Blog: StoryTellingWithData
  
  Stephanie Evergreen:
  
  
• Effective Data Visualization: selecting the right chart for the right data
  
  Alberto Cairo:
  
  
• Truthful Art (good followup to his "functional art" book)

Pretty much anything by Stephen Few. His 2nd edition of Information Dashboard Design is a great start. He's also done some great whitepaper type stuff as well. Google can help you find it.

Edward Tufte is pretty famous in the area as well. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is a classic and an amazing book on representing data.

To me, telling a story with data is essential to calling something BI. Otherwise, it's just presenting a bunch of data in a different format than it started. You need to guide users to be able to diagnose issues and make decisions. Wireframing out a dashboard that starts big picture and have different paths users can follow to additional focused dashboards is key.

I just did a presentation on dashboard and visualization best practices at my company's conference for the 2nd time, and both times a lot of people told me how it changed their view of how they view analytics, or that they needed their team or boss to see the presentation because they are thinking about things the wrong way. Most of what I know and practice/preach today is a result of the above two gentlemen, plus things learned on the job along the way.

Visualize the data with the best chart type for the data. Not because they are pretty. Not because users want to see it a certain way. Pie charts suck, don't ever use them. I use this tweet in my presentation. Along with an example chart of when to use pie charts. Your dashboard might be KPIs and bar charts, and that's ok.

I could go on forever...

TLDR; Check out a couple of guys who are good at what they do. Tell a story with your data! Pie charts suck. Use the right visual. Feel free to PM me questions.

I think that for this general question, I'm good with not seeing your data or dashboards. I guess the first question is: have you gone through the online visualization training from tableau? If not, check out these:
http://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/webinars/making-flow-happen-dashboards-persuade-inform-and-engage

http://www.tableausoftware.com/videos/zen

http://www.tableausoftware.com/learn/whitepapers/tableau-visual-guidebook

After you've gone through these, go read Stephen Few's books...based on your question, you're going to get the most out of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-At---Glance/dp/1938377001/ref=la_B001H6IQ5M_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409978547&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Numbers-Designing-Enlighten/dp/0970601972/ref=la_B001H6IQ5M_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409978547&sr=1-2

sums up about 90% of the contents of this book

Which one of these are you talking about?

https://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-Effective-Communication/dp/0596100167
https://www.amazon.com/Information-Dashboard-Design-At-Glance/dp/1938377001