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How to pitch a textbook to publishers
How to pitch a textbook to publishers Sometime in the next few months my very own textbook will be hitting the printers. It’ll be my first book, and my first time working with a real-life publisher. Getting a book deal always seemed like an impossible daydream, but in reality I cold emailed my pitch and had a contract in a few weeks. Some elements of luck, timing, and privilege undoubtedly played a role, but I attribute a nonzero portion of my success to the way I prepared to pitch the idea.
Data Visualization for People of All Ages
Data visualization is the art and science of making information visible. On paper and in our imaginations, it’s a language of shapes and colors that holds our best ideas and most important questions. As we find ourselves swimming in data of all kinds, visualization can help us to understand, express, and explore the richness of the world around us. No matter your age or background, this book opens the door to new ways of thinking and sharing through the power of data visualization.
Nancy Organ on LinkedIn: TLDR; I'm writing (and illustrating!) a dataviz kids' book for early...
Happy official book launch day, Nancy Organ!!! This book not only has a gorgeous cover, it breaks down #dataviz in a way that everyone from tweens to adults can understand 🙌📊 📗 Author of Data Visualization for People of All Ages Data 📊 Data vis professional with experience in research, design, speaking, writing, and teaching. 👩🏫 Have you ever thought about touching or hearing your data in addition to visualization?
THE KIDS’ TABLE: Draw Along Dataviz, Nightingale
Illustration by Sarah Fawson. Welcome to Draw Along Dataviz! This article is part of The Kids’ Table section on kids dataviz. This section of Nightingale is filled with mini-lessons and drawing activities so that you can do data visualization, too! Each of the activities below includes an example graph, but feel free to get creative and try out your own unique ideas. You can find extra printable copies of each activity here.
An Incomplete Guide to Accessible Data Visualization
Original art by the author In the most literal sense, accessible visualizations aim to give readers access to the information that is represented visually. Most often, accessibility concerns come up in reference to colorblindness or blindness. In reality, though, accessibility extends beyond specific permanent disabilities to encompass the full gamut of usability optimizations — for everyone. It’s useful to remember that disability is not a fixed status occupied by a few individuals.
Technical Writing for Data Scientists
Original art by the author Data science is like driving in a new town: You might arrive at the destination, but explaining how you got there is another story. After spending weeks or months doing painstaking technical work, the writing phase of a data science project can be discouraging. You know you did good work — and learned some cool stuff! — but the words are sometimes slow to find their way to the page. Fortunately, this is very solvable.
30 Examples to Master Pandas
A comprehensive practical guide for learning Pandas Photo by Heng Films on Unsplash Pandas is a widely-used data analysis and manipulation library for Python. It provides numerous functions and methods that expedite the data analysis and preprocessing steps. Due to its popularity, there are lots of articles and tutorials about Pandas. This one will be one of them but heavily focusing on the practical side. I will do examples on a customer churn dataset that is available on Kaggle.
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