Why read Fundamentals of Data Visualization?

Book cover of Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures

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Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business analysts often have to navigate a bewildering array of visualization choices and options.

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1 author picked Fundamentals of Data Visualization as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Valliappa Lakshmanan

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It is not enough for a data scientist to be able to analyze data and build ML models. You have to be able to communicate the insights to decision-makers concisely and accurately. This book shows you bad and good visualizations — you’ll be surprised by how often you would have defaulted to the bad way without the guidance provided by this book!

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