Data at Work

Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel

Jorge Camões (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2016
New Riders Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-13-426863-7 (ISBN)

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Information visualization is a language. Like any language, it can be used for multiple purposes. A poem, a novel, and an essay all share the same language, but each one has its own set of rules. The same is true with information visualization: a product manager, statistician, and graphic designer each approach visualization from different perspectives.

Data at Work was written with you, the spreadsheet user, in mind. This book will teach you how to think about and organize data in ways that directly relate to your work, using the skills you already have. In other words, you don’t need to be a graphic designer to create functional, elegant charts: this book will show you how.

Although all of the examples in this book were created in Microsoft Excel, this is not a book about how to use Excel. Data at Work will help you to know which type of chart to use and how to format it, regardless of which spreadsheet application you use and whether or not you have any design experience. In this book, you’ll learn how to extract, clean, and transform data; sort data points to identify patterns and detect outliers; and understand how and when to use a variety of data visualizations including bar charts, slope charts, strip charts, scatter plots, bubble charts, boxplots, and more.

Because this book is not a manual, it never specifies the steps required to make a chart, but the relevant charts will be available online for you to download, with brief explanations of how they were created.

Jorge Camões has been consulting businesses on how to effectively use information visualizations since 2010 with clients that include the global retail giant, IKEA. Prior to starting his consulting business, Camões worked for 10 years in the business intelligence department of the Portuguese subsidiary of Merck & Co. Camões runs the popular data visualization blog, Excelcharts.com, which has 30K monthly visitors. He works from his home in Lisbon, Portugal.

Introduction

1.     The building blocks

2.     Human perception

3.     Beyond perception

4.     Preparing the data

5.     Information visualization

6.     Discovery and communication

7.     How to choose a chart

8.     Comparisons

9.     Composition

10.    Distribution

11.    Evolution

12.    Relationships

13.    Profiling

14.    Aesthetics in visualization

15.    Color: how to avoid catastrophe

16.    Formatting the chart

17.    Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.4.2016
Reihe/Serie	Voices That Matter
Sprache	englisch
Maße	181 x 229 mm
Gewicht	804 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Objektorientierung
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
ISBN-10	0-13-426863-6 / 0134268636
ISBN-13	978-0-13-426863-7 / 9780134268637
Zustand	Neuware