Everyday Data Visualization: Design effective charts and dashboards

by Desireé Abbott

Radically improve the quality of your data visualizations by employing core principles of color, typography, chart types, data storytelling, and more.

Everyday Data Visualization is a field guide for design techniques that will improve the charts, reports, and data dashboards you build every day. Everything you learn is tool-agnostic, with universal principles you can apply to any data stack.

In this book, you’ll learn important design principles for the most common data

Harness the power of perception to guide a user’s attention
Bring data to life with color and typography
Choose the best chart types for your data story
Design for interactive visualizations
Keep the user’s needs first throughout your projects

This book guides you through basic graphic design for the most common types of data visualization. You’ll learn how to enhance charts with color, encourage users to interact and explore data and create visualizations accessible to everyone. Along the way, you’ll practice each new skill as you take a dashboard project from research to publication.

264 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2024

About the author

Desireé Abbott is a freelance data visualization consultant. She helps companies get that “aha” moment of truly seeing and understanding their data by turning their dashboard dreams into reality, right down to the last pixel. When not up to her eyeballs in charts and graphs, Desireé plays D&D, dabbles at piano and pottery, and turns strings into things by crocheting.

She’s currently living her best life in Northern California with her husband and their fur
babies.

Reviews

[SandraViz · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a very well structured and funny to read book in particular great for beginners.