Visual Design of Reports & Dashboards

Links to websites and books of the design of reports and dashboards with a focus on visual design.

• Stephen Few's peceptualedge.com website. Home of the quarterly Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter and several well reviewed books on the design of reports and dashboards including Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring, Second Edition, 2013.

• Story Telling with Data website Home of the book Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Publisher's description: Teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.

• The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data using Real-World Business Scenarios, Steve Wexler (Tableau Training Partner), Jeffrey Shaffer, Andy Cotgreave (Tableau).