Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics – Book Overview
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A review/description of Nathan Yau's updated data visualization book "Visualize This" (FlowingData Guide), which teaches readers how to create thoughtful charts, maps, and analysis to communicate data visually in an appealing and understandable way. The book covers design, visualization techniques, and statistics.
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· 4 pulledVisualize This demonstrates how to explain data visually, so that you can present and communicate information in a way that is appealing and easy to understand.
Thoughtful charts, maps, and analysis can help us make sense of this data.
But the data does not speak for itself.
Graphics provide little value unless they are built upon a firm understanding.
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