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- Wiley
- Language: english
- Book - storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals
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I can’t recommend highly enough 3 books on good visualizations in business (and everywhere else)
Report format for abstract/methods/etc vs PowerPoint for salespeople varies dramatically from company to company, so I don’t have any good recommendations there. But in the “a picture is worth a thousand words” world, visualizations really matter.
Yes, there's plenty of great reads, e.g., Storytelling with Data.
At a high-level, I emphasize the following to my direct reports & clients:
This sub tends to focus on statistical topics that are a bit more math intensive. But there's definitely stuff you can learn about descriptive statistics and visualization that doesn't require a strong math background. I just did a quick query on Amazon and found a couple of well reviewed books you may want to check out.
https://www.amazon.com/Excelling-Data-Descriptive-Statistics-Using/dp/1491029129
https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
There is also good stuff on Khan Academy. Pausing when he introduces a problem and trying to work it out yourself is a good way to go.
What kind of work are you hoping to use some basic stats in?
Data Science = Technical Skills + Stats Skills + Business Expertise. So, for technical skills, start with Python, SQL, and Tableau. For Stats Skills, pick up 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year stats book. For business experience, work on business projects where use Python and Stats skills to solve them.
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Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking, Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython , Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data
So, you gotta sharpen up your programming skills.
Godspeed
The 4 tufte books: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_be?gclid=CjwKCAiAlO7uBRANEiwA_vXQ-2v-n0CohhIbgiDLiN4cTTgo9-ZNgt3dBsdKfyeaoH8_4lx_SZTljxoCsN4QAvD_BwE
Storytelling with data: https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
Good charts: https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwisyKn6nofmAhXHn7MKHW78CkYYABACGgJxbg&sig=AOD64_0v-YhApSFqcyd2HY_xreF6giEQwQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwi8jZ76nofmAhVEOKwKHXliAVgQwg96BAgPEBg&adurl=
Here's an "Intro to Tableau" Evernote link that has the detail below, but this is what I've put together for our teams when new folks join and want to know more about it.
http://www.evernote.com/l/AKBV30_85-ZEFbF0lNaDxgSMuG9Mq0xpmUM/
What is Tableau?
Where do I get it?
Now that I have it, how do I use it?
How do I become involved?
I want to know more
I'd recommend reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257
http://www.bdbanalytics.ir/media/1123/storytelling-with-data-cole-nussbaumer-knaflic.pdf
and
https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Information/dp/0961392142
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The graphs don't follow best practices and could use some work to more clearly communicate your goal.
Bar charts should not be center aligned like that, unless 0 on the x axis cuts directly through them (ie if they show positive and negative values simultaneously)
Not mathematical, but Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119002257/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_WhB.AbRPZ14ET
Is a good start to communicating results and really easy to understand. Almost mind blowing how much I was missing previously.
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals.
This one was super helpful when i transitioned from ops to using that data to create visualization and reports.
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:
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic:
Stephanie Evergreen:
Alberto Cairo:
I don't think that's really necessary. Take a look at other people's vizzes, take a look at what's catching on, and hang out in /r/dataisbeautiful.
I really suggest this book... it talks about how to build visualizations to efficiently tell a story: https://smile.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537148459&sr=1-1 -- it helped me a ton to build better dashboards.
Also when you're talking about "fancying up" dashboards, it's easy to go overboard. I know that when me and my other colleagues started doing Tableau, we stuck graphs and charts on dashboards and used loud colors just because we thought it looked "cool" but they were just distractions that took away from the story you're trying to tell with the data.
This doesn’t answer your exact questions but I couldn’t recommend this book more: Storytelling with Data - it’s an excellent primer on what makes a good (or bad) data visualization. This book provides tons of dos and don’ts to help you think about how and when to use different types of charts (be forewarned she hates pie charts though) as well as providing before and after examples as inspiration on how to make visualizations better.
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119002257/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_qMFQCbDCYBFGC
Another book to consider that’s more specific to Excel (still gives data viz tips but it’s more how to do this in excel technical) is Data Visualization & Presentation with Microsoft Office - this book was a little basic for my needs but still a good resource.
Data Visualization & Presentation With Microsoft Office https://www.amazon.com/dp/1483365158/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vPFQCbQZQ5876
Links!
Effective Data Visualization
Storytelling With Data
The Accidental Analyst
Data At Work
Effective Data Visualization and Data At Work are in the driver's seat. I really want to try Data At Work, but I struggle to find enough reviews to convince a purchase. Thanks!
I've attended Cole's 1-day workshop and definitely recommend it to any business who needs to summarize the so-what of their data. The book is good too.
http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/public-workshops/
https://www.amazon.com/Storytelling-Data-Visualization-Business-Professionals/dp/1119002257