Now You See It does for visual data sensemaking what Show Me the Numbers does for graphical data presentation: it teaches simple, fundamental, and practical concepts, principles, and techniques that anyone can use—only this time they're exploring and making sense of information, not presenting it. Amy suggests subscribing to e-zines that include inspirational data visualization like Flowing Data by Nathan Yau and Fair Warning by Sophie Warnes.

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Nancy wants designers to keep in mind that “data is finite and factual and should be visually represented as such.In my work with health-care professionals, I list Show Me the Numbers as a must-have for my clients' reference libraries.

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Thought they were just taking excessive money out of my account every few days but realised on this that it\u2019s happening to everybody. In future posts we’ll be looking at, and demystifying, other aspects of a dental treatment plan that may be hard for the lay person to understand. For designers and content professionals, this expectation comes with an additional challenge to represent the data in an impactful way.

The key finding from the book is - present data in the most simplistic way possible to make it easier to understand and save people around you time in these busy times. I have contacted the bank about this, however as the direct debit has a different reference number each time, they have been able to continue taking payments. It doesn't touch on creating engaging graphics, though - Cairo or McCandless may be better placed to help you if that's your goal.