A Practical Guide to Designing with Data

by Brian Suda, Jeremy Keith (Foreword)

In recent years, the terms Visualization, Infographic and others have been bantered around with almost no regard to their use or meaning. There is a new vernacular emerging in the realms of data representations, but that doesn’t mean we can ignore the much simpler origins and best practices of charts and graphs.

Brian Suda takes you on a journey through the basics and makes it easy to produce beautiful looking, accurate representations of data. He’ll walk you through how to visualize and design data in such a way that it engages the reader and tells a story rather than just being flashy, cluttered and confusing.

Foreword by Jeremy Keith

Genres: Design, Web

225 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 1, 2010

Reviews

[Ramy · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book really helps whether you're a designer like me, or even if you're just a normal reader. It shows many different kinds of data charts/graphs, tells you how to craft a perfect infographic, and helps you to discover some of the tricks that may be used to play with the data (& of course to avoid doing them if you're the designer).
In some parts of the book, it gets a bit technical but it's mainly to help you understand how each chart works.
overall I really recommend this book, if you're interested in data designing & want to get to the basics.

[Katy Watkins]

If you think it sounds at least vaguely interesting, I highly recommend reading it. Even if you're not going to be making any charts or graphs, there's a lot of useful information on how to think critically about data. I'm never going to look at charts the same way again.

[Jonathan Ferguson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Information dense. Very useful, may no longer get around to reading my 4 volumes of Tufte as quickly as I had intended.
Worth getting if you create graphs and charts.