Customer Review: Really interesting book...especially if you are looking around to find sth like this...I was really lost in looking for dashboards, but this book made an impact. I propose it to anyone that has any relationship with dashboards!!
Customer Review: This is a basic introduction to InfoVis, covering topics from human perception to improving the decision-making processes with visualizations. It is worth having if you are in the field or are serious about improving your visualizations. Some of the negative comments in reviews must refer to... more info
Customer Review: I returned to Tufte's first classic book of graphic design principles over 20 years after first discovering it. At the time, I was the corporate librarian for a major electric utility, and the explosion in the organization and creation of information by individuals with new personal-computer... more info
Customer Review: This book is an overview textbook of information visualization techniques. The first chapter is very enticing- -it describes many visualization problems, and provides some historical examples of specific visualization techniques of the past. The rest of the book takes up assorted topics such as... more info
Customer Review: Nutshell review - A very useful reference and overview of the world of Information Visualization. A huge number of articles and topics covering a large number of areas providing ideas, insights, and thought provoking for anyone interested in representing / visualizing data.
Customer Review: These excellent design examples lack just one thing: a book to contain them. This binding is not an introduction to information design but rather an unordered series of ID comparisons randomly proffered with no narrative thread and scant context, comment, or analysis. It reads like the answer key to... more info
Customer Review: I enjoyed the author's casual conversational tone through much of the book. It had a lot of good info, some of which was valuable if you were sitting at a keyboard and followed along step-by-step. The author provides a download site for the code within the book, which is a nice alternative to those... more info
Customer Review: An excellent introduction of VS.Net and explanation of IDE development vs stand-alone development, and a thorough coverage of analysis and design phases of the development process. Also excellent worked out examples in each chapter. There are a good number of objective questions and several... more info
Customer Review: I had already decided to grade this a four instead of five, in part because it makes me cranky when world-class authors such as the author of this book neglect other world-class pioneers because of their unwillingness to do a proper search outside their own narrow boundaries. I refer of course to... more info
Customer Review: I have met and attended many lectures by both Bens and believe they both have and still have many contributions to HCI. This book is not one of them, as I was suprised at the poor printing quality of this book. Many figures are unreadable, and make many references to the same project, (i.e.... more info