Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

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Publication date 2004 Topics Business presentations -- Graphic methods, Business presentations -- Charts, diagrams, etc, Graphic methods Publisher Oakland, Calif. As Amy noted, “You can’t expect people without much experience with data visualization to be able to imagine the value of data that hasn’t been viz-ed yet!

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Also some good references, less known: Gene Zelazny (practical guidelines on charts and slideware), Jonathan G.

Thought they were just taking excessive money out of my account every few days but realised on this that it’s happening to everybody. It’s also engaging to step through the data and use multiple slides or transitions to reveal things slowly. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. 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. The Presentation Guild promotes the presentation design and production industry as a profession, recognizes the skills and expertise of presentation creation specialists, and provides opportunities for members to expand their knowledge and abilities.

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I very much appreciate a lot of the content in this book: he gives a useful introduction to basic statistics, I enjoyed his explanation of visual perception, and the painstaking detail he's put into this book is apparent. If you want to read it anyway, try to find illogical and inconsistent statements throughout to have a good laugh. Until information professionals develop these capabilities, we will remain in the dark ages of data. The book in a very detailed and sometimes even academic style explains the type of data, tables, graphs, designs, fonts, colours, patterns etc.With our professional certifications rolling out in October and establishing presentation standards, the Presentation Guild plans to raise the bar with best practices regarding presentation development and design. When it comes to communicating data, you want to choose the charts that make the insights from the data the clearest, not the coolest. I really liked Information Dashboard Design and was hoping for more straight to the point hardnosed data professionalism. We use tables and graphs to communicate quantitative information: the critical numbers that measure the health, identify the opportunities, and forecast the future of our organizations. They could see a movement but focused only on the higher result, they were not able to compare families in a few seconds.