Here are a few data visualization books that I’ve reviewed:
- Visual Revelations, Howard Wainer
- Graph Design for the Eye and Mind, Stephen Kosslyn
- The Grammar of Graphics, Leland Wilkinson
- The Elements of Graphing Data, William Cleveland
See also my list of some of the most-cited dataviz books. Some highlights that I can recommend (and plan to review eventually):
- The Functional Art, Alberto Cairo (my favorite introduction to dataviz)
- Fundamental Statistical Concepts in Presenting Data, Rafe Donahue (free PDF, and should be required reading for statisticians)
- Visualizing Data, William Cleveland
- Creating More Effective Graphs, Naomi Robbins (find the newest edition: a previous publisher mistakenly printed color figures in black-and-white)
- Visualize This and Data Points, Nathan Yau
- Information Visualization, Colin Ware
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
- Show Me the Numbers, Now You See It, and Information Dashboard Design, Stephen Few
- The Semiology of Graphics, Jacques Bertin
- Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, Willard Brinton
- Charts and Graphs, Karl Karsten
- Visualization Analysis and Design, Tamara Munzner