Now You See It by Stephen Few

Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis by Stephen Few (Author). Now You See It: Simple Visualization Methods for Quantitative Evaluation teaches easy, sensible means to explore and analyze quantitative information--techniques that rely primarily on utilizing your eyes. This e book features graphical strategies that may be utilized for a broad range of software instruments, together with Microsoft Excel, because so many people don't have anything else, but in addition more highly effective visual evaluation instruments that may dramatically extend your analytical reach. You'll be taught to make sense of quantitative knowledge of discerning the meaningful patterns, developments, relationships, and exceptions that measure your group's efficiency, establish potential problems and alternatives, and reveal what's going to doubtless happen in the future. Now You See It's not just for those with "analyst" of their titles, but for everyone who's concerned about discovering the stories in their information that reveal their organization's performance and how it may be improved.

I contemplate Stephen Few's works compulsory reading for anyone who calls themselves a BI (Business Intelligence) professional. In this ebook he casts a wide web addressing anybody whose job it's to investigate knowledge to find tendencies, patterns and exceptions hidden within it.

The book centers on growing the reader's skills specific to the group, analysis and interpretation of graphical data. Few continues his quest to help readers harness the power of the visible notion by presenting data in such a means that info, and the story behind it, turns into clear. Think about rigorously the book title and cover artwork: Now you *see* it.

Nowadays an increasing number of folks classify themselves as "analysts" - those who work with knowledge ultimately, shape or form to assist an enterprise obtain its goals. Now You See It teaches you to take your data visualization and interpretation abilities to the next level.

Extremely recommended reading!

As do the 2 reviewers before me, I extremely advocate this book. First of all the ebook is attractive to behold, in the custom of Edward Tufte. Second, and extra importantly, Now You See It, will train you the ideas, expertise and techniques you'll need to visually explore, uncover and make-sense of your data. As one of the reviewers mentioned, Now You See It, is a precursor to Stephen's other books. To greatest current knowledge, it's worthwhile to understand it first. In 300+ pages, Stephen Few teaches you visible evaluation, beginning with general ideas and ideas, after which working by means of many concrete examples of research akin to: time collection, ranking and parts-to-whole, deviation, distribution, correlation and multivariate. My one suggestion for improvement could be so as to add a glossary as an approach to help readers to build their visible vocabulary. 

Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis 

Stephen Few (Author)

329 pages

Analytics Press; 1st edition (April 1, 2009)

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