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Visualization Part 1
Data/Information visualization books
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Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
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Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 7,882 ratings
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Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design
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4.12 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization
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4.19 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
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4.02 avg rating — 1,794 ratings
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Envisioning Information
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4.23 avg rating — 7,922 ratings
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Information is Beautiful
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Knowledge is Beautiful
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4.18 avg rating — 940 ratings
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Graphis diagrams: The graphic visualization of abstract data
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3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Diagrams: A visual survey of graphs, maps, charts and diagrams for the graphic designer
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Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data
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4.02 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Bringing Numbers to Life: Lava and Design-Led Innovation in Visual Analytics
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Observe Collect Draw!: A Visual Journal
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Giorgia Lupi (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 175,
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Exploratory Data Analysis
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4.25 avg rating — 69 ratings
score: 175,
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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4.39 avg rating — 8,605 ratings
score: 172,
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Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment
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3.72 avg rating — 366 ratings
score: 166,
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The Data Journalism Handbook: How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News
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Jonathan W. Y. Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 157,
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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
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4.29 avg rating — 3,095 ratings
score: 138,
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The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge
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4.07 avg rating — 383 ratings
score: 124,
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Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions (Theory In Practice, #31)
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Toby Segaran (Editor)
3.67 avg rating — 258 ratings
score: 109,
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Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
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4.17 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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Creating More Effective Graphs
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3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Facts are Sacred: The power of data
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3.74 avg rating — 161 ratings
score: 96,
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Beautiful News: Positive Trends, Uplifting Stats, Creative Solutions
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3.94 avg rating — 179 ratings
score: 96,
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The Infographic History of the World
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3.78 avg rating — 329 ratings
score: 95,
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Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization
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Roberto Tamassia (editor)
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score: 95,
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Networks: A Very Short Introduction
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3.76 avg rating — 233 ratings
score: 95,
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Making Data Visual: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization for Insight
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3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 94,
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Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe
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3.96 avg rating — 1,498 ratings
score: 93,
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Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (Dimensions of Accounting Theory & Practice Series)
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3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 92,
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Graphic Presentation Simplified
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Handbook of Graphic Presentation
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The United States: A Graphic History
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Our Private Lives
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Data Feminism
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4.30 avg rating — 1,434 ratings
score: 85,
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Cartography.
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4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 84,
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Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis
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4.17 avg rating — 676 ratings
score: 79,
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Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think
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Stuart Card (Editor)
3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 78,
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Visualization Analysis and Design (AK Peters Visualization Series)
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3.91 avg rating — 113 ratings
score: 77,
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Data Visualization: a successful design process
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3.90 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 75,
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Information Visualization: Perception for Design
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4.08 avg rating — 184 ratings
score: 73,
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Semiology of graphics
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4.32 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 71,
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Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
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3.88 avg rating — 1,181 ratings
score: 70,
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Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3
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4.09 avg rating — 535 ratings
score: 69,
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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
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3.92 avg rating — 4,527 ratings
score: 68,
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Data + Design
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
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3.52 avg rating — 179 ratings
score: 65,
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Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations
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4.06 avg rating — 140 ratings
score: 64,
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Illuminating the Path: The Research and Development Agenda for Visual Analytics
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James J. Thomas (Editor)
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score: 63,
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Analyzing the Social Web
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Jennifer Golbeck (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 62,
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Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know
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4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 61,
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Visualization of Time-Oriented Data (Human–Computer Interaction Series)
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 59,
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Communicating Data with Tableau: Designing, Developing, and Delivering Data Visualizations
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Ben Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 58,
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Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis With Tableau Software
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4.07 avg rating — 150 ratings
score: 57,
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R Graphics (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)
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3.92 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Thematic Cartography and Geographic Visualization (Prentice Hall Series in Geographic Information Science)
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3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Data Representations, Transformations, and Statistics for Visual Reasoning
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Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4950)
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Andreas Kerren (Editor)
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 53,
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The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections (Interactive Technologies)
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Benjamin B. Bederson (Editor)
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Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments
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Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon
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Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization
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Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
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3.83 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand
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3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Mastering the Information Age Solving Problems with Visual Analytics
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Cartographies of Time
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3.97 avg rating — 326 ratings
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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures
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4.08 avg rating — 861 ratings
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Beautiful Evidence
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The Accidental Analyst: Show Your Data Who's Boss
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3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
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3.79 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
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Visual Revelations: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception From Napoleon Bonaparte To Ross Perot
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Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data
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Hunter Whitney (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Infographics: The Power of Visual Storytelling
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Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts
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Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2539)
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Katy Börner (Editor)
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Visual Insights: A Practical Guide to Making Sense of Data
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The Grammar of Graphics. Statistics and Computing.
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Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World
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Interactive Data Visualization: Foundations, Techniques, and Applications
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Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
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Data Points: Visualization That Means Something
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Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design
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Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
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Information Visualization: Design for Interaction (2nd Edition)
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Information Graphics --multilingual
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Visualizing Data
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The Elements of Graphing Data
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Visual Storytelling with D3: An Introduction to Data Visualization in JavaScript
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Learning Tableau - How Data Visualization Brings Business Intelligence to Life
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Mastering D3.js - Data Visualization for JavaScript Developers
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The Best American Infographics 2014 (The Best American Series ®)
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Gareth Cook (Editor)
4.04 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Visualization and Verbalization of Data
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Data Visualization: Principles and Practice
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Multivariate Network Visualization: Dagstuhl Seminar # 13201, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 12-17, 2013, Revised Discussions
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Andreas Kerren (editor)
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Human-Centered Visualization Environments: GI-Dagstuhl Research Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 5-8, 2006, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4417)
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Andreas Kerren (Editor)
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Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
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Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel
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Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data
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Stephanie D.H. Evergreen (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 165 ratings
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list created June 30th, 2019
by Georges Hattab (votes) .
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
