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Data Visualization For Business Decisions
Third Edition
ISBN: 9781683925958
Pub Date: July 2020
Specs: 7 x 9 Paperback
Pages: 150
Price: $49.95
This workbook is intended for business analysts who wish to improve their skills in creating data visuals, presentations, and report illustrations used to support business decisions. It is a qualitative lab to develop the power of visualization and discrimination. It does not require the reader to modify charts, but to analyze and describe what would improve charts. In a set of controlled exercises, the reader is taken through the eighteen elements of six dimensions of analyzing and improving charts, visuals and reports used to communicate business concepts. Includes companion files with videos, sample files, and slides used in examples from the book.
FEATURES
- Includes eighteen labs, three for each of the six major dimensions of data visuals: Story, Signs, Purpose, Perception, Method, and Charts
- Uses a comprehensive RAIKS (Rapid Assessment of Individual Knowledge and Skills) survey to judge readers' progress before and after using the text
- Provides a capstone exercise to review the aggregate analysis and final results for the two analyzed charts
- Companion files that include video tutorials and all of the sample files and templates used in the book's examples
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
1: The Labs. 2: The Case Study. 3: The Analysis Tool. 4: Story. 5: Signs. 6: Purpose. 7: Perception. 8: Method. 9: Charts. 10: Case Study Document. 11: Case Study Solution. Appendix. References. Index.
ON THE COMPANION FILES!
Includes companion files with videos, sample files, and the slides used in the examples from the book
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andres Fortino, PhD leads his own company, Fortino Global Education, and is an adjunct faculty member at the NYU School of Professional Studies, where he teaches courses in Business Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Visualization. Dr. Fortino has published eight books and has received many honors, including IBM's First Invention Level Award for his work in semiconductor research. He holds three US patents and ten invention disclosures.