Book Review Visualize This Nathan Yau

Book Review

Title: Visualize This
Subtitle: The Flowing Data Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics

Author: Nathan Yau


Readers



Novice               Adjacent Experience       Expert

From another      Some experience in    Practicing the topic
industry              Similar theory or          in their industry
                           application in
                           another context

Just Starting      Expert or experience in     Expert in topic
out in topic        another data science
                                Topic


Novice

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"People have been quantifying and tabulating things for centuries",
XV, Introduction;

"Improvements in technology have made it extremely easy to collect and store data and the web lets you access it whenever you want", XV, Introduction;

"This wealth in data can, in the right hands, provide a wealth of information to help improve decision making, communicate ideas more clearly and provide a more objective window looking in at how you look at the world and yourself", XV, Introduction;

"A lot of the data on Data.gov was already available on agency sites scattered across the web, but now a lot of it is all in one place and better formatted for analysis and visualisation", XV, Introduction;

"The collective web has also grown to be more open with thousands of Application Programming Interfaces (API) to encourage and entice developers to do something with all the available data", XV,Introduction;

"People want to know what their data says and if you can help them you're going to be in high demand", XVI, Introduction;


Adjacent Experienced

"been quantifying and tabulating things for centuries",XV, Introduction;

"Improvements in technology ...... extremely easy to collect and store data .... web lets you access it whenever you want", XV, Introduction;

"but now a lot of it is all in one place and better formatted for analysis", XV, Introduction;


"web has also grown to be more open with thousands of Application Programming Interfaces (API)", XV, Introduction;


"People want to know what their data says and if you can help them you're going to be in high demand", XVI, Introduction;


Expert

"all in one place and better formatted for analysis", XV, Introduction;

XV, Introduction;

"People want to know what their data says and if you can help them you're going to be in high demand", XVI, Introduction;