Good Charts Workbook

Introduction

How Do I Start?

Hello.

You may have picked up this workbook after reading Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations—my previous book, which offered a framework for understanding what makes good charts and laid out a process for creating them yourself. Or you may have picked it up in a shop just because dataviz intrigues you. You want to make good charts—or at least you think you should be able to. Maybe you got here through an online search. Or a colleague, a friend, or your boss handed you the book because he or she knows you like to think visually. In any case, you’re here. And you probably have the same question most people ask once they decide that data visualization is something they ...