Most-cited books on list of lists of data visualization readings. As part of the resources for his online data visualization course, Alberto Cairo has posted several lists of recommended readings: Some of these links lead to other excellent recommended-readings lists: I figured I should focus on reading the book suggestions that came up more than once across these lists.
Below is the ranking; it’s by author rather than book, since some authors were suggested with multiple books. So many good books! Stanford Visualization Group.
Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It. By Jeanne Harris | 9:00 AM September 13, 2012 Do your employees have the skills to benefit from big data?
As Tom Davenport and DJ Patil note in their October Harvard Business Review article on the rise of the data scientist, the advent of the big data era means that analyzing large, messy, unstructured data is going to increasingly form part of everyone’s work. Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. To thrive in this world, many will require additional skills. Three Benefits of Visualization. By John Sviokla | 4:11 PM December 4, 2009 “A good sketch is better than a long speech…” — a quote often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte The ability to visualize the implications of data is as old as humanity itself.
The Power of Visualization. AEA Topic Group. AEA Data Visualization and Reporting.
Principles of Data Visualization. Tufte, Edward. Data Visualization.