Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?

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  • d3

    Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

  • I did a quick research on this question sometime ago and the following was my conclusion.

    1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte

    2. Storytelling With Data

    3. Documentation pages of data Viz tools e.g. 1, 2, 3 depending on your programming language of choice.

    1. https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki

  • scientific-visualization-book

    An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib

  • For python this open access book is excellent: https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book

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