Build your data viz library | Better Data Visualizations

Take a peek inside one of Cole's highly recommended books for those creating or consuming graphs, Better Data Visualizations by Jonathan Schwabish.

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00:00 Intro
00:37 Book recommendation: Better Data Visualizations
01:10 Podcast with author Jon Schwabish: expanding graphical literacy
02:23 Table of contents
03:56 Flip through the book (part 1)
04:57 Example: bump chart (part 2)
06:35 Example: pyramid chart (part 2)
07:27 Cole's favorite: data viz style guide (part 3)
08:30 One chart at a time video series
09:05 Giveaway!

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[storytellingwithdata]

What books do you want us to share in a future episode? Let us know for a chance to win your copy of Jon's _Better Data Visualizations_ book.

[itsmikem]

I agree Cole, it really does look like an encyclopedia of charts and graphs! Thanks for showcasing this book. It looks really interesting.

[huntedpadfoot]

Thanks so much for this video! Whenever I search for book recommendations, I find a tonne of books and get overwhelmed and do nothing! So it really helps to get a peek inside.

[ronaldocarvalho]

wow! Thank you for sharing this one with us, Cole!
I'm reading Storytelling With Data with my accounting data visualization class and it's being an amazing experience. I love seeing their faces when they realize how everything has a reason behind and nothing should be on your presentation just 'because', I'll absolutely add this one to my reading list next!

[lindsaydukowski]

As always, a very succinct, informative and memorable overview. Looks like an interesting book, especially the last section on Redesign.

[kuuuyajim]

As someone who's starting a career related to report creation, this book is definitely going to be a great source of knowledge. Would love to avail of a copy one day. 😃

[SpotlightImpact]

A fantastic resource! I refer to this book often in my work 🙏🏻

[aimmahm]

This is an awesome! Just the book I was looking for! Thanks for informing me about this book.

[tonyhartigan]

Wow, I just put this book down now and found this on YouTube. Life is crazy sometimes. I’ve gotta say that my initial impression is that it is a very informative book. I love the academic references as well. I highly recommend this book and would love to give a copy to someone at my work.

[nyobalingit]

I would love to see on the next videos discussing the following
1. This book is best for…. ( beginners, pro in data vis..)
2. What does the book offers from other data vis books.

[rajanmithrau]

This was lovely and very unique. Please do more of these, I have lots of Data Viz books on my to read list, would love it if you can cover some of them. Anyway good job :)! Waiting for more such videos.

[bradonvalgardson]

Thanks for the great review of Jonathan Schwabish's book.
I would love to hear your thoughts on Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of quantitative Information.
Some questions I have about Tufte's book are:
1) Is it still relevant today and
2) who is the target audience for the book.

[echen]

Thank you for presenting this overview of the book. I would love a chance to win a copy!

[felivi]

Thanks for sharing Cole ! Would be a great book in my library :-D

[bacabaca]

Thank you for sharing this book. It would be nice if you can intro another book that complements with this one.

[NisHansen]

I would love if you looked at some of the great books from Alexander Loth. For example: Datenvisualisierung mit Tableau.

[nirmalraman]

Thanks for the overview of the book. Enjoyed the chart types coverage of the book especially the use cases and limitations . Have you explored an idea of plug and play charts to explore which charts and alternatives work for different the data you have ?

[datavizgal]

Love these videos regarding building your library, especially the first one. So in that vein, how about other books that one would not think to add to a data visualization library. Will the Post-its come with the book?

[Dogfacd]

I would like a "review" of any of Alberto Cairo's books

[JaimeGonzalez-zypw]

I liked and caught my attention that this book has a Data Visualization style guide because I hadn`t heard about this before. Due to that I got curious and want to win the book to learn more about this topic. And, I would like you to talk about the book "The Back of the Napkin" in a future episode, or related books that expand the concept of visualization in business.