Contents
Part I Book Overview and Background
Adventures in Twitter Data Discovery
Revenge of the Laggards: The Current State of Dataviz
Defining the Visual Organization
Methodology: Story Matters Here
The Quest for Knowledge and Case Studies
Differentiation: A Note on Other Dataviz Texts
Chapter 1 The Ascent of the Visual Organization
The New Web: Visual, Semantic, and API-Driven
Linked Data and a More Semantic Web
The Relative Ease of Accessing Data
Greater Efficiency via Clouds and Data Centers
Greater Organizational Transparency
The Copycat Economy: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Data Journalism and the Nate Silver Effect
The Arrival of the Visual Citizen
The Visual Employee: A More Tech- and Data-Savvy Workforce
Navigating Our Data-Driven World
Chapter 2 Transforming Data into Insights: The Tools
Dataviz: Part of an Intelligent and Holistic Strategy
The Tyranny of Terminology: Dataviz, BI, Reporting, Analytics, and KPIs
Do Visual Organizations Eschew All Tried-and-True Reporting Tools?
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