Yes, information visualization is heating up. With new wonderful software tools (like Tableau Public), and languages (like protovis) it seems that many can get into the game, (including yours truly, but perhaps to your detriment). And to satisfy this interest there are multiple new books, some of them quite good. I’ve read a few of [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Book Reviews'
Graphic Presentation, the book
April 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Book Reviews, Information Design
There’s a neat little book making the rounds on the internet, which can be downloaded for free as a PDF file. It’s Graphic Presentation by Willard Cope Brinton, published in 1939. I really enjoy books like this one for two reasons. They’re filled with suggestions (even if they’re a bit old) for improving graphics, such [...]
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Mind the Income Gap
April 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Book Reviews, Economics
An article in the WSJ — Professor Finds Many Fault Lines in Crisis (subscription required) — again points the finger at the income gap as a major cause for our recent financial calamity. The first Rajan fault line [outlined by the professor] lies in the U.S. As incomes at the top soared, politicians responded to [...]
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Is the Chinese economy a Potemkin Village?
January 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Book Reviews, Economics
From the somewhat poorly written (and academic), but otherwise fascinating book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics by Yasheng Huang, we read this: The ascendancy of crony capitalism is a fitting testimonial to the Shanghai model and to the industrial policy approach of the 1990′s. Shanghai represent the political triumph of the Latin America path, anchored on [...]
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Book review: Economics 2.0
January 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Book Reviews
One of the great joys of writing a blog is that every so often some publicist or other would like to send you a book in the hopes that you review it and spread the word about it via your blog. In return you get the book. This has always seemed like a fair trade [...]
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Book Review: Untapped
December 1st, 2008 · Comments Off · Book Reviews, Energy Markets
I reviewed the book Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil, by John Ghazvinian at Amazon, and thought I should cross post here. The long and short of it: don’t waste your time. I gave it one measly star. Here’s the (very short) review: Having just finished The Prize, Daniel Yergin’s excellent book about the history [...]
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Book Review: Wriston’s Last
June 5th, 2008 · Comments Off · Book Reviews, Financial Markets
Recently I received a request to review Bits, bytes, and balance sheets: The New Economic Rules of Engagement by Walter Wriston (ex-CEO of Citicorp). I can’t even remember who sent the request, but I always say yes to requests like this. After all, who can say no to free books? And then you never quite [...]
Tags:book review·Citicorp·Danielle Steele·finance·Wall Street·Walter Wriston
Reference Materials: MBAs for UX Designers
April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off · About This Site, Book Reviews
After my talk in Miami some people asked for more references. Here’s a brief list that should at least get you started: – The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List – If you’re serious about getting an MBA, but still want to be a designer, then consider an MBA in Design Strategy, offered by California College [...]
Book Review: Predictocracy
February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Book Reviews, Prediction Markets
Michael Abramowicz, in his new book, Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making, resembles nothing so much as a nutritionist. He takes a piece of fruit (prediction markets, in case you’re missing the metaphor) analyzes it in great detail, explains how it works, what makes it good for us, and then proceeds to [...]
Varian, Google, and Standards
November 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Book Reviews, Other Markets
Google’s hiring of Hal Varian this summer perhaps makes even more sense now in light of today’s news about Google’s new mobile platform (and associated standards), called the Open Handset Alliance (or by the awful nickname, Android). For those of you who need a refresher, Hal Varian wrote the book Information Rules, in which he [...]
Tags:Google·Hal Varian·Open Handset Alliance·Verizon·wonderful products
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