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Show me the numbers : designing tables and graphs to enlighten /

Addressing the prevalent issue of poorly designed quantitative information presentations, this accessible, practical, and comprehensive guide teaches how to properly create tables and graphs for effective and efficient communication. The critical numbers that measure the health, identify the opportu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Few, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlingame, Calif. : Analytics Press, [2012]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Business presentations > Graphic methods.
Business presentations > Charts, diagrams, etc.
Graphic methods.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to second edition
  • Introduction
  • Simple statistics to get you started
  • Differing roles of tables and graphs
  • Fundamental variations of tables
  • Visual perception and graphical communication
  • Fundamental variations of graphs
  • Practice in selecting tables and graphs
  • General design for communication
  • Table design
  • Practice in table design
  • General graph design
  • Component-level graph design
  • Displaying many variables at once
  • Silly graphs that are best forsaken
  • Practice in graph design
  • Telling compelling stories with numbers
  • The interplay of standards and innovation
  • Appendices
  • Index.