A good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of
ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication.
For a long time, dataviz was left to specialists--data scientists and
professional designers. No longer. A new generation of tools and massive
amounts of available data make it easy for anyone to create
visualizations that communicate ideas far more effectively than generic
spreadsheet charts ever could. The Harvard Business Review Good Charts
Collection brings together two popular books to help you become more
sophisticated in understanding and using dataviz to communicate your
ideas and advance your career.
In Good Charts, dataviz maven and Harvard Business Review editor Scott
Berinato provides an essential guide to how visualization works and how
to use this new language to impress and persuade. He lays out a system
for thinking visually and building better charts through a process of
talking, sketching, and prototyping.
In Good Charts Workbook, Berinato extends the usefulness of Good
Charts by putting theory into practice. He leads readers step-by-step
through several example datasets and basic charts, providing space to
practice the Good Charts talk-sketch-prototype process for improving
those charts. Examples include a Discussion Key showing how to approach
the challenge and why. Each challenge focuses on a different, common
visualization problem such as simplification, storytelling, creating
conceptual charts, and many others.
The Harvard Business Review Good Charts Collection is your go-to
resource for turning plain, uninspiring charts that merely present
information into smart, effective visualizations that powerfully convey
ideas.
