Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook
This workbook is intended for business analysts who wish to improve their skills in creating data visuals, presentations, and report illustrations used to support business decisions. It is a qualitative lab to develop the power of visualization and discrimination. It does not require the reader to modify charts, but to analyze and describe what would improve charts. In a set of controlled exercises, the reader is taken through the eighteen elements of six dimensions of analyzing and improving charts, visuals and reports used to communicate business concepts. Includes companion files with videos, sample files, and slides used in examples from the book.

Features:
  • Includes eighteen labs, three for each of the six major dimensions of data visuals: Story, Signs, Purpose, Perception, Method, and Charts
  • Uses a comprehensive RAIKS (Rapid Assessment of Individual Knowledge and Skills) survey to judge readers’ progress before and after using the text
  • Provides a capstone exercise to review the aggregate analysis and final results for the two analyzed charts
  • Companion files that include video tutorials and all of the sample files and templates used in the book's examples

The companion files are available online by emailing the publisher with proof of purchase at info@merclearning.com.
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Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook
This workbook is intended for business analysts who wish to improve their skills in creating data visuals, presentations, and report illustrations used to support business decisions. It is a qualitative lab to develop the power of visualization and discrimination. It does not require the reader to modify charts, but to analyze and describe what would improve charts. In a set of controlled exercises, the reader is taken through the eighteen elements of six dimensions of analyzing and improving charts, visuals and reports used to communicate business concepts. Includes companion files with videos, sample files, and slides used in examples from the book.

Features:
  • Includes eighteen labs, three for each of the six major dimensions of data visuals: Story, Signs, Purpose, Perception, Method, and Charts
  • Uses a comprehensive RAIKS (Rapid Assessment of Individual Knowledge and Skills) survey to judge readers’ progress before and after using the text
  • Provides a capstone exercise to review the aggregate analysis and final results for the two analyzed charts
  • Companion files that include video tutorials and all of the sample files and templates used in the book's examples

The companion files are available online by emailing the publisher with proof of purchase at info@merclearning.com.
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Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook

Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook

by Andres Fortino
Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook
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Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook

Data Visualization for Business Decisions: A Laboratory Notebook

by Andres Fortino

Overview

This workbook is intended for business analysts who wish to improve their skills in creating data visuals, presentations, and report illustrations used to support business decisions. It is a qualitative lab to develop the power of visualization and discrimination. It does not require the reader to modify charts, but to analyze and describe what would improve charts. In a set of controlled exercises, the reader is taken through the eighteen elements of six dimensions of analyzing and improving charts, visuals and reports used to communicate business concepts. Includes companion files with videos, sample files, and slides used in examples from the book.

Features:
  • Includes eighteen labs, three for each of the six major dimensions of data visuals: Story, Signs, Purpose, Perception, Method, and Charts
  • Uses a comprehensive RAIKS (Rapid Assessment of Individual Knowledge and Skills) survey to judge readers’ progress before and after using the text
  • Provides a capstone exercise to review the aggregate analysis and final results for the two analyzed charts
  • Companion files that include video tutorials and all of the sample files and templates used in the book's examples

The companion files are available online by emailing the publisher with proof of purchase at info@merclearning.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781683925941
Publisher: Mercury Learning & Information
Publication date: 06/16/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 150
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Andres Fortino, PhD holds an appointment as a Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Systems at the NYU School of Professional Studies, where he teaches business analytics, data mining, and data visualization. He also leads his own consulting company, Fortino Global Education. Dr. Fortino has published ten books and over 40 academic papers and has made over 100 technical presentations. He received IBM's First Invention Level Award for his work in semiconductor research. He holds three US patents and ten invention disclosures. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the Academy of Management, INFORMS and the Decision Science Institute.

Table of Contents

1: The Labs
2: The Case Study
3: The Analysis Tool
4: Story
5: Signs
6: Purpose
7: Perception
8: Method
9: Charts
10: Case Study Document
11: Case Study Solution
Appendix
References
Index
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