Category: Book Review
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Book Review: Data Fluency by Zach Gemignani and Chris Gemignani
Data Fluency is about building an organizational culture that promotes good communication with data. Written by Zach Gemignani and Chris Gemignani, founders of Juice Analytics, the book reads as if it’s a peek into the author’s approach in how they consult and counsel their clients though the use of their Data Fluency Framework. Readers get…
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Book Review: Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations is the third in Tufte’s well known quartet of books on information visualization (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations, and Beautiful Evidence). This is also the third of the quartet that I have read- I have yet to read Beautiful Evidence. I found the book somewhat interesting overall, but…
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Book Review: The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
The Design of Everyday Things surprised me. Allow me to unpack that statement a bit. As I opened the cover of DOET (an abbreviation the author frequently uses), I expected the book to be helpful, but I did not expect what I received. The book first came to my attention from a data visualization blog…
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Book Reviews
Another quick post with some background on something new on the blog. Several years ago I read my first data visualization book: Stephen Few’s Information Dashboard Design. I had read professional books before, but this one fascinated me in ways that no other professional book, on any topic, had before. This was my first exposure to…