Good Charts, Updated and Expanded: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations

Making good charts is a must-have skill for managers today. The vast amount of data that drives business isn't useful if you can't communicate the valuable ideas contained in that data—the threats, the opportunities, the hidden trends, the future possibilities.

But many think that data visualization is too difficult—a specialist skill that's either the province of data scientists and complex software packages or the...