More Practical Charts: 20 Additional Chart Types for Data-savvy Audiences, a Companion Book to Nick Desbarats' Practical Charts

More Practical Charts: 20 Additional Chart Types for Data-savvy Audiences, a Companion Book to Nick Desbarats’ Practical Charts
by: Nicholas P. Desbarats (Author)
Publisher: Bch Fulfillment & Distribution
Publication Date: 2024/1/16
Language: English
Print Length: 88 pages
ISBN-10: 1738888339
ISBN-13: 9781738888337
Book Description
In Nick Desbarats’ Practical Charts, you learned about 30 essential chart types. More Practical Charts adds 20 more “advanced” chart types that can show powerful insights that aren’t possible to show using basic chart types, that can be shown to audiences with more technical or scientific backgrounds (but that audiences with average levels of data savviness might struggle to understand), and that are commonly used in technical or scientific content, but rarely used in content that’s targeted at a general audience.More Practical Charts covers the following chart types:Pareto chartsHeatmapsShape size chartsOverlapping cycles chartsCyclical heatmapsCycle plotsStrip plotsJittered strip plotsMerged strip plotsHistogramsBox plotsMerged histogramsOverlapping histogramsDistribution line chartsDistribution heatmapsMerged bar chartsScatter plotsColored-dot scatter plotsBubble chartsScatter plot matrices
About the Author
In Nick Desbarats’ Practical Charts, you learned about 30 essential chart types. More Practical Charts adds 20 more “advanced” chart types that can show powerful insights that aren’t possible to show using basic chart types, that can be shown to audiences with more technical or scientific backgrounds (but that audiences with average levels of data savviness might struggle to understand), and that are commonly used in technical or scientific content, but rarely used in content that’s targeted at a general audience.More Practical Charts covers the following chart types:Pareto chartsHeatmapsShape size chartsOverlapping cycles chartsCyclical heatmapsCycle plotsStrip plotsJittered strip plotsMerged strip plotsHistogramsBox plotsMerged histogramsOverlapping histogramsDistribution line chartsDistribution heatmapsMerged bar chartsScatter plotsColored-dot scatter plotsBubble chartsScatter plot matrices Read more