Good Charts Workbook: Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Making Better Data Visualizations

by Scott Berinato

Talk. Sketch. Prototype. Repeat. You know right away when you see an effective chart or graphic. It hits you with an immediate sense of its meaning and impact. But what actually makes it clearer, sharper, and more effective? If you're ready to create your own "good charts"--data visualizations that powerfully communicate your ideas and research and that advance your career—the Good Charts Workbook is the hands-on guide you've been looking for. The original Good Charts changed the landscape by helping readers understand how to think visually and by laying out a process for creating powerful data visualizations. Now, the Good Charts Workbook provides tools, exercises, and practical insights to help people in all kinds of enterprises gain the skills they need to get started. Harvard Business Review Senior Editor and dataviz expert Scott Berinato leads you, step-by-step, through the key challenges in creating good charts—controlling color, crafting for clarity, choosing chart types, practicing persuasion, capturing concepts—with warm-up exercises and mini-challenges for each. The Workbook includes helpful prompts and reminders throughout, as well as white space for users to practice the Good Charts talk-sketch-prototype process. Good Charts Workbook is the must-have manual for better understanding the dataviz around you and for creating better charts to make your case more effectively.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

288 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 2019

Reviews

[Em · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very comprehensive with exercises and explanations that are easy to understand. The charts are really good -- the author knows his stuff.

[Cristian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked this book a lot more than the companion (main) book. It is a much more practical guide, full of tips and tricks, and with great examples. The original book is a good book overall, but it sometimes driftes from the main points and its examples can be repetitive or even a bit confusing.

This companion book, which honestly can be read independently, is much more focused and to the point.

[Malcolm · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a solution text book, clever as it is, for me it is a start thinking stimulus.

[Olga · Rating 5 out of 5]

дуже класна книжка практичних завдань по візуазізації даних, деякі поради неоднозначні - але вам точно буде що обговорити з колегами

[Dmytro Khomiak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Книга не на просто прочитати і подивитися приклади, а для формування навички. Десь дві третини книги це вправи з детальними прикладами і поясненнями до них. До того жьзадачі підібрані доволі добре

[Christoph Wimmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful and insightful

Recommending getting the workbook as it complements the Good Charts book very well. It has some great exercises with discussions.

[Alina Rozhkova · Rating 4 out of 5]

Для людей, яким по роботі треба робити візуалізацію даних. Хороший посібник, трішки теорії з завданнями і вправами + кілька шпаргалок в додатках, зручно мати під рукою і звертатись в той момент коли маєш іти малювати діаграму.
Мінус зірка за те, що українське видання робилось не супер уважно, і врешті-решт в ньому є з десяток одруківок і фактологічних проблем (наприклад, переплутані кольори в легенді діаграм) - мене таке бісить в роботі, і тут теж бісило.