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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

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ANALYTICS Press, 2012 - Business & Economics - 351 pages
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 opportunities, and forecast the future of organizations are often misrepresented because few people are trained to design accurate, informative materials, but this manual helps put an end to misinformation. This revised edition of the highly successful book includes updated figures and 91 additional pages of content, including new chapters about quantitative narrative and current misuses of graphs—such as donut, circle, unit, and funnel charts—and new appendices that cover constructing table lens displays and box plots in Excel and useful color palettes for presentation materials.

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Review: Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

User Review  - Ariadna73 - Goodreads

I love this author. He is fantastic writing super-clear books and papers and neatly designed documents. I liked his advice; many of which were about what kinds of charts and graphics are definitely ... Read full review

Review: Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

User Review  - Mark - Goodreads

I probably have read too many of these kinds of books, Tufte, Wainer, Cleveland, Friendly, perhaps it is time to stop. Read full review

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About the author (2012)

Stephen Few is the founder of the consultancy Perceptual Edge. He speaks, teaches, and consults around the world and writes the quarterly Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter. He is the author of Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data and Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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