Visualizing Data: Psychology and Analytics - Exploring, Explaining and Storytelling (Paperback)

It does the job, though it took some patience to get through.

I have been working with data visualization for a few years now and I still found plenty here that was new to me. The author clearly knows the subject deeply and has thought hard about how to teach it. Some terminology is introduced without much ceremony; I had to look a few things up along the way. Three stars feels about right. It will stay on my shelf, but it will not be the first one I reach for.

Finally, a book that treats data visualization with the care it deserves.

There is a particular kind of technical book that is dense without being difficult, and this is one of them. Some of the material is available elsewhere, but rarely presented this clearly. A few of the examples could be more realistic, but the underlying points come across clearly. The exercises at the end of each chapter are worth doing — they caught a few misconceptions I did not know I had. Worth the money and the reading time, without hesitation.

Good book. The writing is direct and the author is honest about limits.

This is the third book I have read on data visualization this year, and it is comfortably the best of them. The examples are small enough to type out and experiment with, which is exactly what I want from a book like this. The balance between theory and practice is well judged; neither side dominates. Four stars, and I suspect a second edition could easily push it to five.