How Charts Work: Understand And Explain Data With Confidence

✍ Scribed by Alan Smith

Publisher: FT Publishing | Pearson Education
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 335
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

How Charts Work brings the secrets of effective data visualisation in a way that will help you bring data alive. Charts, graphs and tables are essential devices in business, but all too often they present information poorly. This book will help you:
• Feel confident understanding different types of charts, graphs and tables – and how to read them
• Recognise the true story behind the data presented and what the information really shows
• Know the principles and rules of how best to represent information so you can create your own • information-driven (and beautiful) visuals
• Design visuals that people engage with, understand and act upon
• Don’t value design over information – present data persuasively.
Find the FT Chart Doctor’s columns here - https://www.ft.com/chart-doctor

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the author
Author's acknowledgements
Foreword
1. Why you need this book
2. Why charts matter
Part 1 Know your charts
3. The Financial Times visual vocabulary
4. Charts of magnitude
5. Charts of change over time
6. Charts of correlation
7. Charts of distribution
8. Charts of flow
9. Charts of ranking
10. Charts of deviation
11. Charts of part to whole
12. Spatial is special
Part 2 Putting charts to work
13. The science behind good charts
14. Scales of justice; axes of evil
15. The best charts are well written
16. Designing for charts
17. Visualising uncertainty - a case study
18. Using the FT Visual Vocabulary in your own organisation
Index
Publisher's Acknowledgement
Back Cover

✦ Subjects

Charts; Diagrams, etc; Information Visualization

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