Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel (Paperback)

Jorge Camões

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商品描述

Information visualization is a language. Like any language, it can be used for multiple purposes. A poem, a novel, and an essay all share the same language, but each one has its own set of rules. The same is true with information visualization: a product manager, statistician, and graphic designer each approach visualization from different perspectives.


Data at Work was written with you, the spreadsheet user, in mind. This book will teach you how to think about and organize data in ways that directly relate to your work, using the skills you already have. In other words, you don’t need to be a graphic designer to create functional, elegant charts: this book will show you how.


Although all of the examples in this book were created in Microsoft Excel, this is not a book about how to use Excel. Data at Work will help you to know which type of chart to use and how to format it, regardless of which spreadsheet application you use and whether or not you have any design experience. In this book, you’ll learn how to extract, clean, and transform data; sort data points to identify patterns and detect outliers; and understand how and when to use a variety of data visualizations including bar charts, slope charts, strip charts, scatter plots, bubble charts, boxplots, and more.


Because this book is not a manual, it never specifies the steps required to make a chart, but the relevant charts will be available online for you to download, with brief explanations of how they were created.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

資訊視覺化是一種語言。就像任何語言一樣,它可以用於多種目的。詩歌、小說和文章都使用相同的語言,但每一種都有自己的一套規則。資訊視覺化也是如此:產品經理、統計學家和平面設計師從不同的角度來處理視覺化。

《資料工作》這本書是為使用試算表的使用者而寫的。本書將教你如何以與你的工作直接相關的方式思考和組織數據,利用你已經具備的技能。換句話說,你不需要成為平面設計師才能創建功能性、優雅的圖表:本書將向你展示如何做到這一點。

儘管本書中的所有示例都是在Microsoft Excel中創建的,但這不是一本關於如何使用Excel的書。《資料工作》將幫助你了解應該使用哪種類型的圖表以及如何格式化它,無論你使用哪種試算表應用程序,無論你是否具有任何設計經驗。在本書中,你將學習如何提取、清理和轉換數據;對數據點進行排序以識別模式和檢測異常值;以及了解何時以及如何使用各種數據視覺化,包括條形圖、斜率圖、條帶圖、散點圖、氣泡圖、箱形圖等等。

由於本書不是一本使用手冊,它不會具體說明製作圖表的步驟,但相關的圖表將在線上提供下載,並附有簡要的創建說明。