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Unfolding The Napkin: The Hands-On Method For Solving Complex Problems With Simple Pictures (2009)

by Dan Roam(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1591843197 (ISBN13: 9781591843191)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Portfolio Trade

review 1: Hi. So for all those out there who gaze at their laptops and computer screen for long number of hours each day, to figure out what those bulk charts, dashboards and tables say about your company profits and losses, this book is your knight in the shining armor! :) All post grads doing MBA,please go through this book and learn better visualization and presentation aspects for your projects and models. Ben Fry sure is the most renowned author for data visualization practices in the world but Dan Roam has done an amazing work with this second book of his. His style is frank, simple, approachable, funny and gripping! It almost feels like a fiction novel as you turn pages and glance at hi text and pictures. I would recommend this to corporate world and anybody who is into a lot... more of presentations and data interpretation. Have a humorous and informative read! :)
review 2: READ DEC 2010Excellent approach to visual thinking and visual problem solving. This book is a follow-up to the original book and is set up as more of a workbook. Best ideas are the four "unwritten rules" including: (a) whoever is best able to describe the problem is the person most likely to solve it, (b) we can't solve problems that overwhelm us. To understand what we're seeing, we need to break it into bite-size pieces, (c) problems don't get solved by the smartest, fastest, or strongest; they get solved by the one who sees the possibilities; and (d) the more human your picture, the more human the response. less

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