The Big Picture: How to Use Data Visualization to Make Better Decisions―Faster

by Steve Wexler

Not a data expert? Here’s an engaging and entertaining guide to interpreting and drawing insights from any chart, graph, or other data visualization you’ll encounter.

You’re a business professional, not a data scientist. How do you make heads or tails of the data visualizations that come across your desk―let alone make critical business decisions based on the information they’re designed to convey?

In The Big Picture, top data visualization consultant Steve Wexler provides the tools for developing the graphical literacy you need to understand the data visualizations that are flooding your inbox―and put that data to use. Packed with the best four-color examples created in Excel, Tableau, Power BI, and Qlik, among others, this one-stop resource empowers you to extract the most important information from data visualizations quickly and accurately, act on key insights, solve problems, and make the right decisions for your organization every time.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Technology

272 pages, Paperback

Published May 13, 2021

Reviews

[Ellie Fields · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great overview of how to visualize data to get to the meaning in the data. Covers a lot of examples and some important theory, like pre-attentive attributes. Steve's style is conversational and easy to read and makes this a great intro for anyone working with data.

[Neregauzak]

2021/07/07

[Diarmait O'Reilly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great overview of data visualisations best practices

Very insightful book giving insights into best practices and even more interestingly what not to do when building data visualisations.