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One of the "six best books for data geeks" - Financial Times

With over 200 images and extensive how-to and how-not-to examples, this new edition has everything students and scholars need to understand and create effective data visualisations.

Combining 'how to think' instruction with a 'how to produce' mentality, this book takes readers step-by-step through analysing, designing, and curating information into useful, impactful tools of communication.

With this book and its extensive collection of online support, readers can:

- Decide what visualisations work best for their data and their audience using the chart gallery

- See data visualisation in action and learn the tools to try it themselves

- Follow online checklists, tutorials, and exercises to build skills and confidence

- Get advice from the UK's leading data visualisation trainer on everything from getting started to honing the craft.

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20 Aug. 2019
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18.8 x 2.03 x 24.38 cm
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Many books focus on using software to visualise data but fewer consider good design. Data Visualisation addresses this in an inherently practical way. This is a much needed book which recognises and clarifies the process of designing excellent graphics.

-- Chris Playford Published On: 2019-01-18

What do we actually mean when we talk about Data Visualisation? How do we ′do it’? How can we ensure our research using Data Visualisation is effective and ethical? The answers are all here in this inspirational and invaluable guide.

-- Thérèse A.G. Lewis Published On: 2019-03-28

Everything I loved in the first edition of this valuable book has been incorporated into the second, including Kirk’s typology of data visualisation and masses of visual examples, but with more precise written arguments. This volume continues to fill the gap between overwhelming data and the visualisations that can facilitate understanding.

-- Pamela Woolner Published On: 2019-03-29

In this second edition, Andy adds relevant content to what was already a fantastic framework for learning the fundamentals of data visualization, all with acute and critical eyes. As an educator, I find it an invaluable resource to students and myself alike.

-- Isabel Meirelles Published On: 2019-04-01

While most works in this space focus on data journalism, scientific visualisations or other specialist audiences, this book targets decision makers and helps with everything from initial concepts and data preparation to editorial layouts. A refreshing angle and a compelling read.

-- Elena Simperl Published On: 2019-04-04

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications Ltd; Second Edition (Revised Edition) (20 Aug. 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1526468921
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1526468925
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.8 x 2.03 x 24.38 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 121,258 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 9 in Data Modeling & Design (Books)
- 40 in Beginner's Guide to Databases
- 129 in Social Sciences Statistics & Research

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Paul

Perfect handbook for practitioners

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2020

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There are many books out there that can help you with visualisation design techniques. However, there are few that guide you through the pre-design stages, such as initial thinking, editorial decisions and chart selection. Most just get carried away with the beauty of visualisation and jump straight into guidance on style, colours, symbols, images etc.. In the main these books are completely silent when it comes to challenging yourself with the question of "what is it you want to say?" and "is a chart the right way of saying it?".

That what makes this book different. (Possibly unique?) It covers every stage of the process from beginning to end, including those important pre-design activities. It's designed for use as a reference book, for quick bits of advice, or as a methodology which takes you by the hand as you work through the preparation and development of your visualisation.

It contains an excellent gallery of chart types with clear guidance on which are best suited to particular situations. It's complemented by an online gallery which is being continually updated with examples of each type, produced by a variety of tools.

Whether your a complete novice, or an accomplished expert, there's something in this book for you. If you want to create visualisations with real purpose and only want one book on the subject then this is the one.

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Good content, really bad print quality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2021

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I really like the content of the book. The analysis and breakdown of good data visualisation is great. However, the print quality is extremely disappointing, it’s often hard to make out exactly what the author is trying to show. I also find the print most off putting, maybe I should have went by the digital version instead.

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Rick Sendelbeck

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2021

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Bought this book because of the positive review of a fellow student.

It's an excellent book for everyone who is in need of conceptional tools to approach and break down their visualisation task.

The target audience is more likely anyone approaching visualisation for the first time or more experienced visualisers who would like to read more about how the author approaches his work - aka copying bits and pieces of his thinking.

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Jonathan Walker

The best Data Visualisation book out there!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2019

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If you want to learn best practice about Data Visualisation THIS is the book to go to! Using incredible examples of data visualisations from many sources and THE most contemporary artists, Andy explains the reasons why they are successful in the most consumable manner. This is the book to buy!

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Piero Montebruno

I was ready to take on the world/Guess what I did?/I bought a book: Data Visualisation by Andy Kirk

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2019

The day after I passed my Viva at LSE, I was ready to take on the world. I started hunting online for the next topic that could fascinate me so intensely, it would be worthy of my newly acquired freedom. I wanted something that would help prepare me up for the challenges that I’d be facing soon. Guess what I did? I bought a book: Data Visualisation by Andy Kirk.

I confess that my first reaction was surprise. I’d thought Kirk’s book would offer a course on how to code visualisations, but it doesn’t. Instead, the book presents a method, and a super powerful one at that, on how to approximate, learn and squeeze visualisations. My next reaction was amazement at the examples, which were absolutely first-rate. Since few details were given about the author’s, I scanned them and used Google Image to find out more. In this way, I encountered for the first time Valentina d’Efilippo, for instance. (In this second edition, each visualisation is given a standard reference, so identifying the authors is now straightforward)

Not long after I’d first flipped through the book, my boss suggested that I take a course at the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). To my great astonishment, Kirk was offering a two-day workshop. Only then, while preparing for the workshop and reading the book from cover to cover did I come to understand the quality and subversive power of the book.

The book teaches you how to think, feel out, discuss, experience, and get into the world of visualisation including its unbeatable catalogue of 49 chart types classified after the evident mnemonic C-H-R-T-S. The book is a masterful reflection on the art of visualisation design, not an outline of the techniques needed to digitally develop them. At that price, the book transforms you into a literate, a connoisseur, a taster, a sommelier of visual outcomes. Generally speaking, I don’t like soft ability books. I think they are a waste of time. But Kirk's book is a genuine exception to this rule. The book is captivating and productive from beginning to end. It starts you down the path of efficient decision making in visualisation. And precisely because the book doesn’t tangle you up in the burden of coding or any other technicality, it is free to offer rich creative inspiration and value-added for the reader, acting almost like a coach on visualisation at every level of visualisation awareness. You will not find the D3.js codes to replicate the visualisations you like. But you will learn how those codes were inspired and the challenges involved in their creation. You may be surprised to learn how often the best visualisations were drawn before they were coded, because after all, this is an art; as the book makes clear, visualisations are ideas, often new and brilliant ideas, that require provocative flair, not just replicability following standard recipes.

The second edition furthermore manifests what I think is the greatest strength of Kirk’s method: the drive for constant improvement. I can easily imagine Kirk saying, at the start of this book’s journey, “Come on board, that you will improve. Despite your starting level”. This strength is the most fantastic thing of this handbook, this promise that underlies all the author’s effort: “you will always have learnt something after reading the book”. This pledge, albeit apocryphal, is something very few books can really offer.

This second edition will also walk you through every, and I mean every, detail in data visualisation design from creating the general composition down to the nuisance of selecting font size for source references. But not in the old boring way, instead, always with a clever twist. In fact, you will learn with hundreds of handpicked examples from the poorest to the most authoritative visualisations. After reading the book, you will have been instructed not in a single given set of preferences, but in the critical process of perceiving and judging preferences and tastes. You will be able to form an authoritative data visualisation opinion. You will be able to verbalise what makes a visualisation good and bad. But again, not under a rigid and top-down system of preferences imposed by the author on you but by drawing upon hands-on practical and active involvement, by experience, inner educated perceptions, and your own creativity and personal catharsis as the guiding tools.

How I did in Kirk’s workshop is another story. But I can say that I felt in the air his sheer passion for visualisation. That passion was transmitted to his audience, and each participant left the workshop a fervid “Kirkian” when it comes to data visualisation. Books are often said to have lives of their own. With Kirk, the opposite is true. This book is an appendix of Kirk’s intellect. In his workshops, he implements what he says in the book because the book is another working tool: a consequence of his proposals.

To capture the nature of the book in metaphor, it is not a course of the technicalities of wine production, but a course on the full winery experience; the effect is such that you walk away with a full wine tasting awareness even if you are not producing wine yourself. It educates, cultivating your understanding of visualisation and, in turn, empowering inspired people with a sound grasp of the art of visualisation. Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, you will learn a great deal. And I would dare to guarantee that this is a book you will fall in love with. Sooner or later, but at some point, you will find your destiny: to fall in love with it.

There is a before and an after Andy Kirk in visualisation training. Indeed, I rank Kirk as the first author in the discipline because I truly believe in his ability to persuade and convince, rather than to indoctrinate. This second edition offers intriguing new content, including visualisations of Donald Trump/Barack Obama, Nobel Laureates, and Taylor Swift’s moods. Many parts of the book have also been re-written, some content shuffled around, and even unnecessary words have been cut down since mutatis mutando this new edition is 35 pages shorter than the previous one. Consequently, this edition is not just the old edition with a new cover where “first” has been replaced by “second”; rather, this superb second edition is an awful lot more and a terrific balance between continuity and change. It deserves a careful rereading if you have already read the first edition. And if you haven’t, it’s all on board to the definitive handbook on data visualisation!

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