Data Visualization Books
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,632 ratings — published 1983
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,011 ratings — published 2015
Envisioning Information (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 7,934 ratings — published 1990
The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 43 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.19 — 814 ratings — published 2011
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,186 ratings — published 2011
Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,531 ratings — published 2004
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,797 ratings — published 2010
Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.17 — 677 ratings — published 2009
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,102 ratings — published 1997
Beautiful Evidence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,371 ratings — published 2006
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,299 ratings — published 2019
Data Points: Visualization That Means Something (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 525 ratings — published 2013
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 535 ratings — published 2013
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.08 — 864 ratings — published 2009
Information Visualization: Perception for Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.08 — 184 ratings — published 2000
Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.21 — 678 ratings — published 2016
Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.81 — 243 ratings — published
Information Graphics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.40 — 401 ratings — published 2011
Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 231 ratings — published
The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.20 — 456 ratings — published
Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 16 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.25 — 414 ratings — published 2016
Information is Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,536 ratings — published 2001
Knowledge is Beautiful (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 15 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.18 — 942 ratings — published 2012
Dear Data (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,158 ratings — published 2016
Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.10 — 183 ratings — published 2016
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.33 — 155 ratings — published 2018
Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.15 — 106 ratings — published 2010
Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.98 — 377 ratings — published 2011
Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.37 — 191 ratings — published
Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.03 — 118 ratings — published
Visualization Analysis and Design (AK Peters Visualization Series)
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avg rating 3.90 — 115 ratings — published 2014
Infographics Designers Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 88 ratings — published 2014
Semiology of graphics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.32 — 158 ratings — published 1967
The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by (shelved 9 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.16 — 86 ratings — published 1999
Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice! (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.47 — 175 ratings — published
Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.83 — 254 ratings — published 2013
Design for Information: An Introduction to the Histories, Theories, and Best Practices Behind Effective Information Visualizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.06 — 140 ratings — published 2013
Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 276 ratings — published 2008
INFORMATION GRAPHICS (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.97 — 58 ratings — published 1996
Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
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avg rating 3.82 — 186 ratings — published 2008
ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!)
by (shelved 8 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.34 — 362 ratings — published 2009
Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.72 — 366 ratings — published 2007
DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 525 ratings — published
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,203 ratings — published 2018
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,578 ratings — published 2010
Cartographies of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 3.97 — 327 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as data-visualization)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,557 ratings — published 2019
Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 139 ratings — published
Python for Data Analysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 2,433 ratings — published 2011
Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 165 ratings — published
“Sometimes bar charts are avoided because they are common. This is a mistake. Rather, bar charts should be leveraged because they are common, as this means less of a learning curve for your audience.”
― Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
― Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
“The inadequacy of unidimensional plotting along a continuum (in this case the diagonal of a symmetric matrix) inevitably would make "buffer" elements appear non-conformist when in fact they may be part of an interconnected pattern.”
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location
― Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location


