Visualizing Financial Data

Visualizing Financial Data shows you how to design dynamic, best-of-breed visualizations for better communication of financial data. This book provides a comprehensive set of visualizations tailored to the most common requirements for corporate financial reporting, as well as portfolio, mutual fund, and hedge fund management. This highly visual, full color book showcases a series of cases that push data communication conventions forward, demonstrating and contrasting traditional bar, line, and pie charts against more modern visual methods. The companion website features all of the visualizations discussed, and provides the underlying datasets that you can use to practice on your own or customize the visualizations for your own use.

Get a fresh take on visualizations and insight you need to communicate financial data better than ever before.

• Expand the boundaries of data visualization conventions
• Optimize data communications, understanding, and disclosure
• Learn new approaches to traditional charts and visualizations
• Create exemplary visualizations

Visualizing Financial Data shows you newer, better ways of communicating the full meaning of the data, to support efficient, timely, and effective decision-making.

JULIE RODRIGUEZ is an Information Architect with experience in user research, analysis, and design for complex systems. She has patented her work in commodities trading and data visualizations for MATLAB, and publishes industry articles on user experience and data analysis and visualization. PIOTR KACZMAREK is an Information Designer with over 20 years of experience in qualitative and quantitative data visualizations, presented in formats ranging from print and digital displays to interactive animations.

The companion website gives you the illustration files and the source data sets, and points you to the types of resources you need to get started.