How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff. Originally published in 1954, with illustrations by Irving Geis. A revised edition was published by Penguin Books (1973) with illustrations by Mel Calman. This was one of the first books I ever bought and is still excellent today
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Statistics-Penguin-Business/dp/0140136290
Meaningful Graphs: Converting Data into Informative Excel Charts by James M. Smith (2014). I have seen a lot of books on Excel- and owned a quite few over the years. Many are bloated and not very interesting. This one is very good - and one of the few I've felt worth buying since I discovered good online resources, such as Chandoo.org.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaningful-Graphs-Converting-Informative-Charts/dp/0986054909
Dashboards for Excel by Jordan Goldmeier and Purnachandra Duggirala (2015). Apress. A really useful book - it has tips and tricks that would take you years to discover for yourself
Some Books by Edward Tufte
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ebooks
Edward Tufte introduced the term “chartjunk” and the concept of data-ink ratio in his first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983). The second edition was published in 2001 (ISBN 0-9613921-4-2).
His second book, Envisioning Information was published in 1990 Graphics Press, ISBN 0-9613921-1-8.(2001)
Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions (1997) provides two fascinating case studies: the 1854 cholera epidemic and the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Graphics Press (1997) ISBN 0-9613921-2-6.
Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press, ISBN 0-9613921-7-7. 2006
Some Books by Stephen Few
If you are interested in data visualisation then it is just a matter of time before you encounter Stephen Few. As well as the books listed below, he also publishes a lot of very good short articles, available free, on his website at www.perceptualedge.com
Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2009
Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Second Edition, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2012
Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring, Second Edition, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2013. Although this book is now in its second edition, I only have the first edition at present.
Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2015
Some Books to avoid?
There are some books in which I have been particularly disappointed. At the risk of upsetting their authors, the following are books which I would definitely not recommend:
Using Charts to Create Effective Dashboards by T.Doyle
Having got this electronically to read on a Kindle, I was dispapointed to find that this book is very short and is barely more than a list of types of chart. There is little on dashboard design at all. Most of the samples it provides are good examples of how not to use charts. This book seems even to have vanished from the Amazon Kindle store now, making my copy an endangered species - soon to be deleted.
MS Excel as a Graphics Design Tool by Clarence Bjorkmann
This was an interesting concept but in the end I was left wondering why on earth anybody would want to use Excel in this way when even Windows Paint could produce better results and there are freeware graphics tools available. Furthermore, the graphic design in the book itself is not impressive. £3.47 I wish I'd spent differently.
Dashboards for Excel by Jordan Goldmeier and Purnachandra Duggirala (2015). Apress. A really useful book - it has tips and tricks that would take you years to discover for yourself
Some Books by Edward Tufte
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ebooks
Edward Tufte introduced the term “chartjunk” and the concept of data-ink ratio in his first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983). The second edition was published in 2001 (ISBN 0-9613921-4-2).
His second book, Envisioning Information was published in 1990 Graphics Press, ISBN 0-9613921-1-8.(2001)
Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions (1997) provides two fascinating case studies: the 1854 cholera epidemic and the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within (2006).
So that's two of us who don't like Powerpoint! Hooray!
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Graphics Press (1997) ISBN 0-9613921-2-6.
Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press, ISBN 0-9613921-7-7. 2006
Some Books by Stephen Few
If you are interested in data visualisation then it is just a matter of time before you encounter Stephen Few. As well as the books listed below, he also publishes a lot of very good short articles, available free, on his website at www.perceptualedge.com
Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2009
Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Second Edition, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2012
Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring, Second Edition, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2013. Although this book is now in its second edition, I only have the first edition at present.
Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise, Stephen Few, Analytics Press, 2015
Some Books to avoid?
There are some books in which I have been particularly disappointed. At the risk of upsetting their authors, the following are books which I would definitely not recommend:
Using Charts to Create Effective Dashboards by T.Doyle
Having got this electronically to read on a Kindle, I was dispapointed to find that this book is very short and is barely more than a list of types of chart. There is little on dashboard design at all. Most of the samples it provides are good examples of how not to use charts. This book seems even to have vanished from the Amazon Kindle store now, making my copy an endangered species - soon to be deleted.
MS Excel as a Graphics Design Tool by Clarence Bjorkmann
This was an interesting concept but in the end I was left wondering why on earth anybody would want to use Excel in this way when even Windows Paint could produce better results and there are freeware graphics tools available. Furthermore, the graphic design in the book itself is not impressive. £3.47 I wish I'd spent differently.
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