Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

What you need to see.
A must to cut through all of the junk. What senior managers a looking for is dynamics not eye candy. This methodology linked through OLAP or Cloud, well, more than one person has tried to "borrow" it from my desk!

This is one the best books on how to present massive data in a crisp fashion to:
1. Inform
2. Deliver your ideas3. Guide the discussion towards results
4. Sell you ideas to audience
I am teaching my high school twins to use in their personal projects for the IB program. I mentioned the book to their teacher, she is going to include the key learnings from the book into her teaching aids.
I have used some the key learning to help my colleagues craft an effective message...In the past they had difficulty in selling their ideas to their decision makers. It worked like charm. 

Review: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

This should be required reading for anyone involved in reporting or dashboard design. This book adresses dashboard content as well as user interface design. He references Edward Tufte as well as some ... Read full review

Review: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Insightful. Easy to read and at the same time gives sensible advice. Read full review

Review: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

From one of the gurus of data presentation. Stephen Few takes excellent research in human factors, and shows how to apply it to the presentation of business data. If you want to know how to create that new Information Dashboard and have it really succeed, this is the way to do it. Read full review

Review: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Dashboard design - one of the most important aspect of presentation in this information-overload world today. If you're a consultant or researcher, and you have an encyclopedic amount of analysis you ... Read full review

Review: Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data

Wow. If any part of your job involves communicating data to other people, you should read this book. Not only does the author provide numerous techniques to apply to your own work, he explains the ... Read full review