Data visualisation - which diagram should I use?

This excellent weblink from qlikview (a data visualisation tool) takes you through the main data visualisations and gives advice on when each one is appropriate.
This book Information is Beautiful by David McCandless presents all sorts lots of statistics about the world in a visually imaginative way - the ultimate coffee table book! The picture above is taken from the book and summarises 40 different types of "Information Viz".
Finally this book Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few is probably the definitive reference book on Information Design on the principle "less is more". Few thoroughly debunks flashy dashboard designs which look like airline and car cockpits which impress on first sight but are a nightmare to use in favour of simple clean minimalistic designs which actually convey the required information effectively.
About Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:- Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
- Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
- How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
- Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.
Tags: business intelligence, dashboards, data visualisation, excel, simulators
Bioteams Books Reviews
Beyond Multinationals: a new corporate structure emerges
The rise of the MetaNational: In a new book, From Global to MetaNational, Strategy experts and Insead Professors, Yvez Doz, José Santos and Peter Williamsonargue that the future form of successful global enterprise has now changed from the multinational to the metanational.
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