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Effective Data Visualization: The Right Chart for the Right Data
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Written by sought-after speaker, designer, and researcher Stephanie D. H. Evergreen, Effective Data Visualization shows readers how to create Excel charts and graphs that best communicate their data findings. This comprehensive how-to guide functions as a set of blueprints―supported by both research and the author’s extensive experience with clients in industries all over the world―for conveying data in an impactful way. Delivered in Evergreen’s humorous and approachable style, the book covers the spectrum of graph types available beyond the default options, how to determine which one most appropriately fits specific data stories, and easy steps for building the chosen graph in Excel.
Now in full color with new examples throughout, the Second Edition includes a revamped chapter on qualitative data, nine new quantitative graph types, new shortcuts in Excel, and an entirely new chapter on Sharing Your Data With the World, which provides advice on using dashboards.
New from Stephanie Evergreen! The Data Visualization Sketchbook provides advice on getting started with sketching and offers tips, guidance, and completed sample sketches for a number of reporting formats. Bundle Effective Data Visualization, 2e, and The Data Visualization Sketchbook, using ISBN 978-1-5443-7178-8!
- ISBN-101544350880
- ISBN-13978-1544350882
- Edition2nd
- PublisherSAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication dateMay 14, 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.38 x 0.63 x 9.19 inches
- Print length352 pages
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Meet the course requirements. But the author′s language is not so formal. PowerPoint slides are not available. -- Yong Chen ― drupal Published On: 2021-03-04
About the Author
Dr. Stephanie D. H. Evergreen is a sought-after speaker, designer, and researcher. She is best known for bringing a research-based approach to helping others better communicate their work through more effective graphs, slides, and reports. She holds a PhD from Western Michigan University in interdisciplinary research, which included a dissertation on the extent of graphic design use in written data reporting. Dr. Evergreen has trained audiences worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops for clients, such as Verizon, Head Start, American Institutes for Research, Brookings Institute, the Ad Council, Boys and Girls Club of America, and the United Nations. She led the first known attempt to revamp the quality of presentations for an entire association: the Potent Presentations Initiative for the American Evaluation Association (AEA). She is the 2015 recipient of the AEA’s Marcia Guttentag Promising New Evaluator Award, which recognizes early notable and substantial accomplishments in the field. Dr. Evergreen is coeditor and coauthor of two issues of New Directions for Evaluation on data visualization. She writes a popular blog on data presentation at StephanieEvergreen.com. Her book, Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact, was published by Sage in Fall 2013 and was listed as number one in Social Science Research on Amazon in the United States and United Kingdom for several weeks.
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- Publisher : SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication date : May 14, 2019
- Edition : 2nd
- Language : English
- Print length : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1544350880
- ISBN-13 : 978-1544350882
- Item Weight : 1.34 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.38 x 0.63 x 9.19 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #188,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #51 in Business Communication
- #118 in Social Sciences Research
- #123 in Sociology Research & Measurement
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About the author

Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is an internationally-recognized speaker, designer, and researcher. She is best known for bringing a research-based approach to helping data nerds better communicate their work through more effective graphs, slides, and reports.
A Fulbright scholar, she holds a PhD from Western Michigan University in interdisciplinary evaluation, which included a dissertation on the extent of graphic design use in written research reporting.
Dr. Evergreen has trained researchers worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops, for clients including Mastercard, Verizon, Head Start, American Institutes for Research, Rockefeller Foundation, Brookings Institute, and the United Nations.
She is the 2015 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Guttentag award, given for notable accomplishments early in a career and the 2017 recipient of the Myrdal award for impacts on practice.
Dr. Evergreen is co-editor and co-author of two issues of New Directions for Evaluation on data visualization. She writes a popular blog on data presentation at StephanieEvergreen.com.
Her two books on designing high-impact graphs, slideshows, and reports both hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists weeks before they were even released. In Spring 2019 Dr. Evergreen is publishing the second edition of one of those bestsellers and a brand new sketchbook with templates for making infographics and dashboards.
Check out upcoming events at: stephanieevergreen.com/event
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