This book provides a comprehensive reference for those tasked with building or overseeing the development of business dashboards. It includes examples that address different industries and departments (healthcare, transportation, finance, human resources, marketing, customer service, sports, etc.) and platforms (print, desktop, tablet, smartphone, and conference room display) The Big Book of Dashboards is the only book that matches great dashboards with real-world business scenarios.
Nathan Yau, author of Visualize This and creator of flowingdata.com, uses examples from art, design, business, statistics, cartography, and online media to explores standard-and not so standard-concepts and ideas about illustrating data.
Browse these annual volumes to get ideas. They include a 'best in breed' compilation from users, and cover topics from business and economics as well as government, health, naturual resources, transportation, utilities and more.
FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.
Storytelling With Data takes a storytelling-based approach to data visualization. She engages the site’s regular users with visualization challenges, and offers critiques and tutorials to move her community toward mastery.
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