On this page I’ll be writing about books I’ve read and recommend and sometimes about books I’ve already bought and going to read in the nearest future. If you’re looking for books with step by step instructions like “click File then click Open”, this is a wrong place to search. In this list you’ll usually find either advanced guides and references or books that expand your mind and change the way you think (about business intelligence, data analytics, data visualization). I’m in Europe, so I’ll be giving links mostly to Amazon.co.uk, but you can find the same books on Amazon.com.

Collect, Combine, and Transform Data Using Power Query in Excel and Power BI (my review)
Author: Gil Raviv
Buy the book (Amazon.co.uk)

Analyzing Data with Power BI and Power Pivot for Excel (my review)
Authors: Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
Buy the book (Amazom.co.uk)

Star Schema The Complete Reference
by Christopher Adamson


Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals (my review)
Buy the book (Amazon.com)
Author: Nussbaumer Knaflic

Storytelling with Data: Let’s Practice!
by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios
by Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, Andy Cotgreave

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
by Edward R. Tufte

Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
by Alberto Cairo

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
by Alberto Cairo

Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
by Stephen Few

Information Visualization: Perception for Design
by Colin Ware

#MakeoverMonday: Improving How We Visualize and Analyze Data, One Chart at a Time
by Eva Murray, Andy Kriebel

by William S. Cleveland

by William S. Cleveland

Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps
by Jacques Bertin

Playfair’s Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary
by William Playfair


