Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data

The updated Second Edition of the comprehensive how-to guide functions as a set of blueprints, supported by research and the author’s extensive experience with clients in industries all over the world, for conveying data in an impactful way. NOW IN FULL COLOR!

Written by sought-after speaker, designer, and researcher Stephanie D. H. Evergreen, Effective Data Visualization shows readers how to create Excel charts and graphs that best communicate their data findings. This comprehensive how-to guide functions as a set of blueprints—supported by both research and the author’s extensive experience with clients in industries all over the world—for conveying data in an impactful way. Delivered in Evergreen’s humorous and approachable style, the book covers the spectrum of graph types available beyond the default options, how to determine which one most appropriately fits specific data stories, and easy steps for building the chosen graph in Excel. 

Now in full color with new examples throughout, the Second Edition includes a revamped chapter on qualitative data, nine new quantitative graph types, new shortcuts in Excel, and an entirely new chapter on Sharing Your Data With the World, which provides advice on using dashboards.

New from Stephanie Evergreen! The Data Visualization Sketchbook provides advice on getting started with sketching and offers tips, guidance, and completed sample sketches for a number of reporting formats. Bundle Effective Data Visualization, 2e, and The Data Visualization Sketchbook, using ISBN 978-1-5443-7178-8!

• | Author: Stephanie Evergreen
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2019
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781544350882
• | ISBN-10: 1544350880