This post is a review of a pair of related books, The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge and The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge, both by Manuel Lima. I ran across these on a list of … Continue reading
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Book Review: Better Posters
Pelagic Publishing (disclaimer: they published my book “Data Management for Researchers”) asked if I wanted to review their new book, “Better Posters: Plan, Design, and Present an Academic Poster,” and sent me a review copy to read. As a mid-career … Continue reading
Book Review: How Charts Lie
Continuing in my pandemic reading of data books, next up is “How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information” by Alberto Cairo. (I didn’t plan to be a predominately book review blog, but I need a way to channel the … Continue reading
Book Review: Invisible Women
The book, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, is one of those books that I’m going to shove toward my unsuspecting friends and say “read this!”, it’s so good. It’s validating for women, will be eye-opening … Continue reading
Book Review: Storytelling with Data
One of the data areas that I’m currently interested in is data visualization, which has resulted in a pile of data viz books in my to-read list. I’ve been working my way through Show Me the Numbers, which may be … Continue reading →
The Long List of Data Management Books
There was a long discussion on twitter yesterday (okay, I went on a rant) about the vast number of data management books that have been published for librarians in the past few years. While not exclusively data management books for librarians, … Continue reading →
Book Review: Effective Data Visualization
I know a little bit about a lot of data things, but one area I’m weak in is data visualization. Sure, I can make a graph in Excel but that doesn’t mean that the graph is necessarily good. Thankfully, Sal … Continue reading →