Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft® Excel®

Acknowledgments

I’d like to first thank Alberto Cairo. In non-English speaking countries, there are a few oases when it comes to publishing original data visualization books, but the landscape is basically a barren desert. I wanted to help change that, so I wrote the first manuscript of this book in my mother tongue, Portuguese. I then asked Alberto if he would read it.

Not only can Alberto read Portuguese, but we also share a similar view of what we think data visualization is all about, in spite of working in different areas. To make a long story short, he liked the book and introduced me to his acquisitions editor, Nikki McDonald, and so my data visualization journey took a turn. With the help of Nikki, my development editor Dan Foster, copy ...