Avoiding Data Pitfalls

Ben Jones is the founder and CEO of Data Literacy, LLC, which runs DataLiteracy.com and is on a mission to help individuals master the language of data. Ben is also a data visualization instructor at the University of Washington and the author of the book 'Avoiding Data Pitfalls', which is a reputation-saving manual for data professionals, designed to help you avoid the all-too-common missteps in data analysis, visualization, and presentation.

There are a plethora of data tools available, as well as books on how to utilize them—but unless you fully grasp how to deal with data, each of these tools can eventually mislead you and lead to costly blunders. This book takes you through the whole data visualization process, from computation and analysis to accurate and meaningful presentation, step by step. Common errors are dissected in detail to show you how they develop, how they've grown so widespread, and how you may prevent them right away. Then, and only then, can you make use of the multitude of tools available—in the hands of someone who understands what they're doing, the appropriate tools may significantly reduce the time, work, and numerous decisions that go into every data presentation?

Each chapter focuses on a particular risk, detailing the unique dangers and providing examples to assist you to learn how to spot and avoid them. Even though there is only one chapter dedicated to data visualization (pitfall No. 6: graphical gaffes), the book highlights the sorts of questions and thinking processes that anyone who visualizes data should be considering while examining their data throughout the book. The lessons described are excellent for people who are just getting started with data analysis and visualization, but they also serve as a helpful reminder of concerns that more experienced analysts may overlook.

"This is the most intimate data we've ever seen. Avoiding Data Pitfalls by Ben Jones isn't just a rehash of classics like How to Lie With Statistics; it's a refreshing, honest, idiosyncratic, and deeply humane look at the challenges we all face when gathering, analyzing, or presenting data, written from the perspective of a professional who's seen and erred a lot and isn't afraid to admit it." —Alberto Cairo, co-author of the book How Charts Lie.

Author: Ben Jones

Language: English

Link buy: https://www.amazon.com/Avoiding-Data-Pitfalls-presenting-visualizations/dp/1119278163