Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks

The care and craftsmanship that went into *every single page* of this book is just astounding. Wonderfully written in an accessible style, this book delivers. The print quality is absolutely fantastic, every page is colorful and glossy, which makes it a joy to handle. It's so wonderful to come across something that is so well done, so on point, that you want to make sure anyone thinking of buying it takes the plunge.

This is a fantastic book that I assign as supplement to my econometric course. The text is clear and direct, with great guidance for best practices on how to create beautiful and engaging figures for data analysis.What I like most about the text is that unlike many data viz books, it focuses on concrete features of data visualization that can immediately improve presentation, rather than leaving aesthetic decisions up to the reader. As someone who is not particularly artistic, it was very helpful to see what dimensions are most important to focus on -- I will not necessarily be creating pictures on the NYTimes homepage, but I can make far better figures than I used to.

My son in law is in a graduate program in statistics. He was impressed and found it very useful for his work.

It turns out that this volume provides a fairly comprehensive overview of graph types with commentary on how well suited each is for telling a clear story with your data.My only complaint is with the glue binding. This book is over an inch thick, and the glue binding is insufficient. The first 50 pages broke free from the binding within minutes of opening the book. Very disappointing.

I cut my teeth on Tufte, and still love his book series. However, they are very high-concept and not so excellent at getting into the weeds.I've bought quite a few other dataviz books to try to teach myself how to take the philosophical Tufte information and turn it into specific actionable methods to improve my work. Sadly, those books all tend to be not good.Then I found this one. My gosh! This book is exactly what I wanted. First, it's software agnostic and doesn't try to show you how, but rather shows what and why. The author lays out many good guidelines, both those derived from Tufte ("integrate the graphics and text") and others I've figured out on my own ("start with gray"), but also goes much deeper and provides many other good guidelines and suggestions.I read this book cover to cover, I'm going to keep it on my desk, and I'm already recommending it to others.

This is a highly informative and easy to read book on data and data visualization. Having spent a career using and communicating with data across several sectors for very technical policy and program issues, I found myself continually saying "I wish I had this book years ago!"It is very easy to read, even for those who aren't familiar with technical concepts or have an extensive background in this area. What's great is that Jon also shows you how to integrate creative and informative data visualizations into your overall project or presentation, related to and helping your written content as well. Because Jon practices what he preaches, the pages literally pop and instantly communicate facts and figures; and more importantly, it inspired me to create the same way, and apply these tools in my own work.

I got this book to help me improve the way I communicated at work. It has helped me find better ways to present data, according to the audience and the type of data I need to show.

This book far exceeded my expectations. The author did a fantastic job of compiling and explaining the visuals.I won several other books on the visualization of data and none are close to the amount and quality of examples.There are 100's of amazing visuals, some I have not seen before. Highly recommended!