Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design

Great content, poor quality

What’s the point of a book on data vis if you can’t make out the data visualizations? Love this book so much I opted for the printed version, which I rarely do for reference books anymore since it’s such a timesaver to be able to search within text. I’m really sorry I didn’t get the digital version instead. The overall print quality is lacking: both text and images have a faded appearance, and the ink, particularly dark colors, has very poor saturation and contrast. The images are way too small and low resolution (even using magnifying readers the highly detailed reference images are blurry and unreadable). The page layout may look great on a tablet or computer screen, but the tiny example charts, gray background and (slightly darker) gray <9pt font make for very difficult reading (see chapter 6). it still has great content, but i may have to double down and get the digital version so can “zoom in.”