Most-cited books on list of lists of data visualization readings | Civil Statistician. 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! The list, by number of citations per author: 8x Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 4x 3x 2x 1x Many other wonderful books! I’m glad to see there is such a long tail of diverse influences. …and my to-read list also includes: PS — Tufte’s book was clearly the most-widely cited by far (although out of his four books, people only cited this one).
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. Companies grappling with big data recognize this need. In a new Avanade survey, more than 60 percent of respondents said their employees need to develop new skills to translate big data into insights and business value. Ready and willing to experiment: Managers and business analysts must be able to apply the principles of scientific experimentation to their business. 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.
Yet due to the vast quantities, sources, and sinks of data being pumped around our global economy at an ever increasing rate, the need for superior visualization is great and growing. To give dimension to the size of the challenge, the EMC reports that the “digital universe” added 487 exabytes — or 487 billion gigabytes — in 2008. I believe that we will naturally migrate toward superior visualizations to cope with this information ocean. About ten years ago, I vividly remember visiting the Cabinet War Rooms in the basement of Whitehall, where Churchill had his war room during WW II.
On the one hand, I was struck by how primitive their information environment was only sixty years ago. What has changed since Churchill was chomping on his favorite cigars? The Power of Visualization. AEA Topic Group. AEA Data Visualization and Reporting.
Principles of Data Visualization. Tufte, Edward. Data Visualization.