Persuading with Data - A Guide to Designing, Delivering, and Defending Your Data

An integrated introduction to data visualization, strategic communication, and delivery best practices.

Persuading with Data provides an integrated instructional guide to data visualization, strategic communication, and delivery best practices. Most books on data visualization focus on creating good graphs. This is the first book that combines both explanatory visualization and communication strategy, showing how to use visuals to create effective communications that convince an audience to accept and act on the data. In four parts that proceed from micro to macro, the book explains how our brains make sense of graphs; how to design effective graphs and slides that support your ideas; how to organize those ideas into a compelling presentation; and how to deliver and defend data to an audience.
 
Persuading with Data is for anyone who has to explain analytical results to others. It synthesizes a wide range of skills needed by modern data profession