The Harvard Business Review Good Charts Collection: Tips, Tools, and Exercises for Creating Powerful Data Visualizations

Description for Sales People:

Two books to help individuals and teams learn about and apply the principles of data visualization.

• Sharp, motivating assessment of the dataviz-for-business context
• Strong value-proposition for both personal effectiveness and org success
• Framework for "thinking visually"
• Includes more than 100 sketches, charts, graphs, and illustrations.
• Step-by-step guidance on creating and improving charts
• Lots of space for sketching inside the workbook

Audience: Any manager, entrepreneur, or employee in any kind of enterprise who needs to understand dataviz/graphics better and to use it in making their case and advancing their career.

Scott Berinato is a self-described "dataviz geek" and a Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review. He has written and edited many articles for HBR and other top business and tech-related print and web publications.

Author social media/website info: linkedin.com/in/scott-berinato-6330ba54, twitter.com/scottberinato?lang=en

A good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication.

For a long time, "dataviz" was left to specialists--data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new generation of tools and massive amounts of available data make it easy for anyone to create visualizations that communicate ideas far more effectively than generic spreadsheet charts ever could. The Harvard Business Review Good Charts Collection brings together two popular books to help you become more sophisticated in understanding and using dataviz to communicate your ideas and advance your career.

In Good Charts, dataviz maven and Harvard Business Review editor Scott Berinato provides an essential guide to how visualization works and how to use this new language to impress and persuade. He lays out a system for thinking visually and building better charts through a process of talking, sketching, and prototyping.

In Good Charts Workbook, Berinato extends the usefulness of Good Charts by putting theory into practice. He leads readers step-by-step through several example datasets and basic charts, providing space to practice the Good Charts talk-sketch-prototype process for improving those charts. Examples include a "Discussion Key" showing how to approach the challenge and why. Each challenge focuses on a different, common visualization problem such as simplification, storytelling, creating conceptual charts, and many others.

The Harvard Business Review Good Charts Collection is your go-to resource for turning plain, uninspiring charts that merely present information into smart, effective visualizations that powerfully convey ideas.