Provides designers with the tools they need to harness the potential of machine learning and put it to use for good through thoughtful, human-centered, intentional design.

Turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. There is a story in your data--Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Explores the thinking process that helps you create original, meaningful visualizations that your audience will both understand and remember.

Examples featured include different industries and departments (healthcare, transportation, finance, human resources, marketing, customer service, sports, etc.) and different platforms (print, desktop, tablet, smartphone, and conference room display) Matches great dashboards with real-world business scenarios.

Aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear decision-making process to encode your information visually. Discover how three fundamental influences--the designer, the reader, and the data--shape what you create.

Offers hands-on practice with exercises, examples, and source code provided in every chapter.

French civil engineer Charles-Joseph Minard became famous in the 19th century for the “flow map,” which represents the movement and quantity of something over space or time. Explores the statistical graphics of his career and the stories behind his technical drawings, maps, and unique visualization method.

Takes a commonsense approach to understanding data that doesn't require advanced math or statistics.

Reveals how infographics and data visualization are currently impacting photography and points to innovative possibilities for the future.

Learn to play with data! Inspiration for balancing colors, words, and images for: Statistical Findings, Flow Diagrams, Geographic Data, Instruction and Explanation.

As the world grows more complex, some of the best stories are told through visuals. Showcases the myriad possibilities of non-verbal communication from studios and individuals that illustrate how the world of infographics continues to evolve as it informs data and graphic trends.

Delivered in a humorous and approachable style, it covers the spectrum of graph types available beyond the default options and how to determine which ones most appropriately fit specific data stories.

For anyone interested in information design or any of its related disciplines such as interaction design and information architecture, information graphics, document design, universal design, service design, map-making and wayfinding. Erik Spiekermann, (author of foreword.)

Anatomy of ideas: Acknowledges Fritz Kahn's inspirational mind and his work as a pioneer of information design

Cartographers, programmers, statisticians, designers, scientists, and journalists have developed a new field of expertise in visualizing knowledge. This XL-sized compendium explores the history of data graphics from the Middle Ages right through to the digital era. Others in the series available in the Library include -- > Understanding The World -- Food & Drink Infographics -- National Geographic Infographics

Data visualization represented with top-selected examples from print and electronic media from the recent past.