QuickStart Guide to (Ultra-)High Performance Visualizations

The clearest explanation of data visualization I have come across.

This is the third book I have read on data visualization this year, and it is comfortably the best of them. Some of the material is available elsewhere, but rarely presented this clearly. It is denser than the page count suggests, and I found myself slowing down around the middle. I have already recommended it to two colleagues and will recommend it to more.

The clearest explanation of data visualization I have come across.

This is the third book I have read on data visualization this year, and it is comfortably the best of them. The code samples assume a particular environment, which took a bit of fiddling to get running properly. It is denser than the page count suggests, and I found myself slowing down around the middle. This is the book I wish had existed when I started working with data visualization.

A genuinely enjoyable read that also taught me a great deal.

I read this over a couple of weekends alongside a small side project, which turned out to be the ideal way to approach it. A few of the examples could be more realistic, but the underlying points come across clearly. The code samples assume a particular environment, which took a bit of fiddling to get running properly. The balance between theory and practice is well judged; neither side dominates. I have already recommended it to two colleagues and will recommend it to more.