Data Visualization for Success

Book excerpt: -Top designers discuss their approaches to data visualisation, offering insight into their commonly used design methods and tips for beginning practitioners in the field -The 40 featured designers are all very experienced, and are renowned for creating reputable works of high level and value What is data visualization? In Data Visualization for Success, 40 designers and their works demonstrate that data visualization is a vibrant and constantly evolving field that is as multimodal as it is interdisciplinary. Through the works showcased here, these designers discuss some of their approaches to working with data visualisation, offering insight into the design methods they commonly use and providing tips that will help beginning practitioners in the field. This book shows that data visualization is a practice and discipline whose fluid boundaries continue to be moved in new, exciting, and unprecedented directions by emerging and seasoned designers alike.