Building effective, smart-looking data visualizations is quickly becoming a need-to-have skill for managers?if you're not doing it, another manager is, and they're getting noticed for it?and credit for your company's success. This new, updated and expanded edition shows you how to build and present better visuals in order to make a compelling case, and move people to action. * Sharp, motivating assessment of the dataviz-for-business context. * Strong value-proposition for both personal effectiveness and org success. * Framework for "thinking visually." * Step-by-step guide for getting from data to sketch to final product. * Hundreds of visual and narrative examples of dataviz, the good, the bad & the ugly. Audience: Broad business and management audience interested in both sharpening their understanding of the current data-flooded context, as well as in building their skill in leveraging it through dataviz competence. Roughly similar to the audience for Nancy Duarte's HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations.