Better Data Visualizations

Better Data Visualizations
Author: Jonathan Schwabish
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2021-02-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0231550154

Now more than ever, content must be visual if it is to travel far. Readers everywhere are overwhelmed with a flow of data, news, and text. Visuals can cut through the noise and make it easier for readers to recognize and recall information. Yet many researchers were never taught how to present their work visually. This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design. Schwabish surveys more than eighty visualization types, from histograms to horizon charts, ridgeline plots to choropleth maps, and explains how each has its place in the visual toolkit. It might seem intimidating, but everyone can learn how to create compelling, effective data visualizations. This book will guide you as you define your audience and goals, choose the graph that best fits for your data, and clearly communicate your message.

Excel 2007 Charts

Excel 2007 Charts
Author: John Walkenbach
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2011-06-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118050843

Excel, the top number-crunching tool, now offers a vastly improved charting function to help you give those numbers dimension and relativity. John Walkenbach, a.k.a. Mr. Spreadsheet, clearly explains all these charting features and shows you how to choose the right chart for your needs. You’ll learn to modify data within the chart, deal with missing data, format your chart, use trend lines, construct “impossible” charts, create charts from pivot tables, dress them up with graphics, and more. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Excel Hacks

Excel Hacks
Author: David Hawley
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2007-06-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0596555288

Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier. There are many ways to take advantage of Excel's advanced capabilities without spending hours on advanced study. Excel Hacks provides more than 130 hacks -- clever tools, tips and techniques -- that will leapfrog your work beyond the ordinary. Now expanded to include Excel 2007, this resourceful, roll-up-your-sleeves guide gives you little known "backdoor" tricks for several Excel versions using different platforms and external applications. Think of this book as a toolbox. When a need arises or a problem occurs, you can simply use the right tool for the job. Hacks are grouped into chapters so you can find what you need quickly, including ways to: Reduce workbook and worksheet frustration -- manage how users interact with worksheets, find and highlight information, and deal with debris and corruption. Analyze and manage data -- extend and automate these features, moving beyond the limited tasks they were designed to perform. Hack names -- learn not only how to name cells and ranges, but also how to create names that adapt to the data in your spreadsheet. Get the most out of PivotTables -- avoid the problems that make them frustrating and learn how to extend them. Create customized charts -- tweak and combine Excel's built-in charting capabilities. Hack formulas and functions -- subjects range from moving formulas around to dealing with datatype issues to improving recalculation time. Make the most of macros -- including ways to manage them and use them to extend other features. Use the enhanced capabilities of Microsoft Office 2007 to combine Excel with Word, Access, and Outlook. You can either browse through the book or read it from cover to cover, studying the procedures and scripts to learn more about Excel. However you use it, Excel Hacks will help you increase productivity and give you hours of "hacking" enjoyment along the way.

Excel for Chemists

Excel for Chemists
Author: E. Joseph Billo
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781118093931

Reviews from previous editions: "Excel for Chemists should be part of any academiclibrary offering courses and programs in Chemistry." —Choice "I highly recommend the book; treat yourself to it; assign it toa class; give it as a gift." —The Nucleus The newly revised step-by-step guide to using the scientificcalculating power of Excel to perform a variety of chemicalcalculations Chemists across all subdisciplines use Excel to record data intabular form, but few have learned to take full advantage of theprogram. Featuring clear step-by-step instructions, Excelfor Chemists illustrates how to use the scientificcalculating power of Excel to perform a variety of chemicalcalculations. Including a CD-ROM for Windows, this new edition provideschemists and students with a detailed guide to using the currentversions of Excel (Excel 2007 and 2010) as well as Excel 2003. Additional features in this third edition include: How to perform a variety of chemical calculations by creatingadvanced spreadsheet formulas or by using Excel’s built-intools How to automate repetitive tasks by programming Excel’sVisual Basic for Applications New chapters show how to import data from other languageversions of Excel, and how to create automatic procedures The accompanying CD contains a number of Excel macros tofacilitate chemical calculations, including molecular weight,nonlinear regression statistics, and data interpolation Several appendices provide extensive lists of useful shortcutkeys and function descriptions

Excel 2003 Bible

Excel 2003 Bible
Author: John Walkenbach
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 972
Release: 2013-05-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0764549790

The most comprehensive guidebook available on the most popular spreadsheet program, fully updated to include all-new "X" features Written by the leading Excel guru known as "Mr. Spreadsheet," John Walkenbach, who has written more than thirty books and 300 articles on related topics and maintains the popular Spreadsheet Page at www.j-walk.com/ss The definitive reference book for beginning to advanced users, featuring expert advice and hundreds of examples, tips, techniques, shortcuts, work-arounds, and more Covers expanded use of XML and Web services to facilitate data reporting, analysis, importing, and exporting information Explores Excel programming for those who want advanced information CD-ROM includes all templates and worksheets used in the book, as well as sample chapters from all Wiley Office "X" related Bibles and useful third party software, including John Walkenbach's Power Utility Pak Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.