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Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
by Stephen Few
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Decent book 
Nutshell review - A decent book on dashboard design. I had hoped for more examples of good design rather than more examples of bad. Worth looking at nonetheless.
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Good, Practical Contribution to Visually Communicating Data 
This book offers more than the title might suggest...more specifically, this title provides a good foundation for how to communicate data visually in general. Stephen Few does a good job demonstrating examples of good and "not so good" visual presentations of data utilizing Information Dashboards. I found the example Information Dashboards at the end of the book to be particularly useful. This book could serve as a good reference for those interested in effectively communicating data visually.
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BUY THIS 
this book is worth every penny. i use it all the time as a reference and it's a good read.
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An excellent starting point for those of us with no visual design training 
Mr. Few's book boils down to one message - the point of a dashboard is to convey the right information simply, without confusion or distraction. He then proceeds to show by copious examples the various techniques to use AND to avoid to accomplish this goal. His points about how to visually focus on the data rather than the "fluff" in charts and overall design are excellent. Especially valuable are discussions of how placement, grouping and other non-data display design elements affect our... more info
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