Communicating with Data Visualisation
A Practical Guide
- Adam Frost - Add Two Digital
- Tobias Sturt - Add Two Digital
- Jim Kynvin
- Sergio Fernandez Gallardo
This book is a step-by-step guide (honed through the authors' Guardian masterclasses, workshops and seminars) to bringing data to life through visualisations, from static charts and maps to interactive infographics and motion graphics.
Introducing a four-step framework to creating engaging and innovative visualisations, it helps you to:
· Find the human stories in your datasets
· Design a visual story that will resonate with your audience
· Make a clear, persuasive visual that represents your data truthfully
· Refine your work to ensure your visual expresses your story in the best possible way.
This book also includes a portfolio of best-practice examples and annotated templates to help you choose the right visual for the right audience, and repurpose your work for different contexts.
This is an enjoyable and informative read from four premier data visualisation experts. Grounded in their award-winning practice and teaching, the authors offer concrete strategies and a wealth of examples for anyone wishing to create intuitive and engaging data visualisations.
The book is a refreshingly witty guide to data visualisation that entertains while it educates. It offers a clear and easy to follow process illustrated through a dizzying range of examples. It’s a great combination of design principles and real-world lessons learnt through actual projects. Fun, accurate, erudite and teeming with useful nuggets of information - very much like some of their best data visualisations!
This is a very readable book on a subject which is often overlooked. The coverage is good and it has excellent web links throughout
Excellent material for the most advanced students of my module; most students will find sufficient the content that refers to the 'find' stage of the authors' approach. Students who wish to go the extra mile, will refer to the resource to explore ways of personalising their data visualisations. Anecdotal feedback from my students suggests that the structured approach of the book and the myriad of examples, are very much appreciated.
Excellent material for the most advanced students of my module; most students will find sufficient the content that refers to the 'find' stage of the authors' approach. Students who wish to go the extra mile, will refer to the resource to explore ways of personalising their data visualisations. Anecdotal feedback from my students suggests that the structured approach of the book and the myriad of examples, are very much appreciated.
This is probably the single most innovate text I have read about presenting data. As a healthcare professional I have to explain risk factors, incidence and outcomes to my partients and this has given me the tools to make the stats interesting and understandable.
Gor my teaching it has revoloutinised my presentations. The proof is in the pudding I haven't had to roll a single student over ionto their side to stop them snoring since I started to use this text!
Sage College Publishing
