Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

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urn:lcp:showmenumbersdes0000fews:epub:9fce1801-6cf1-4eb8-bb44-6040b6d4363b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier showmenumbersdes0000fews Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s24k6stn222 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780970601995 On another hand, the book is directed at a very specific niche and it will be totally useless for those that have no interest in working with numbers and presenting them in a very simplistic way to various audiences.

Today everybody can produce reports of quantitative business information in the form of tables and graphs. But because doing it became so easy due to new technology, many of us forgot about mean purpose: to provide the reader with important, meaningful and useful insights.With this second edition, Show Me the Numbers has been transformed from a practical, engaging, and trustworthy guide for displaying numbers into the most comprehensive reference available for anyone who seeks to present data in enlightening ways, even to those with numberphobia." --Stacey Barr, performance measure specialist

The strong visual nature of graphs requires a number of unique design practices. Always avoid 3-d and encode quantities to correspond accurately to the visual scale. You can only use two attributes of visual perception to reliably encode quantitative information: line length and 2-d position. Line length in the form of bars and 2-d position in the form of points and lines. Bars do one thing extremely well, representing individual values discretely. Because length of a bar is one of the attributes that encodes its quantitative value, its base should always begin at the value zero. Pie chart is part of larger family of area graphs. In pie chart, the perimeter of the circle serves as a circular axis. Pie charts communicate poorly. The Guild asked Amy Cesal, Community Director at Data Visualization Society, to share her point of view about creating a meaningful experience in data presentations: Lines that are used to encode values in graphs fall into four categories: standard line, high-low line, trend line and reference line. Standard are particularly good at displaying values that change through time as well as the overall of that change. High-low connect the maximum and minimum quantitative values across multiple data sets at each location along a categorical scale. Trend lines display the overall course of quantitative values that are spread across a series of categorical subdivisions. Reference lines are used to display a set of values against which other can be compared or to mark a point of interest along a categorical scale. Stephen Few is the master of creating simplicity and meaning through the clear visualization of data. Show Me the Numbers should be required reading for every businessperson, researcher, student, and teacher. A contemporary classic!" --Garr Reynolds, author, Presentation Zen and The Naked Presenter

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Some design professionals wonder what the future holds for our industry. Will we be supported or threatened by so many template companies that are popping around the world? Tables and graphs are part of family of display methods known as charts. Other types of charts are diagrams and maps. Graphs are perceived by our visual systems. Tables interact primarily with our verbal system. Numbers First group: 22 sales managers. They could see a movement but focused only on the higher result, they were not able to compare families in a few seconds.

Lccn 2004101575 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-0000316 Openlibrary_edition Whatever the reason for breaking the data into groups, keep in mind the following design practices:To enable easy comparison between individual members of a particular set of categorical subdivisions, arrange them across multiple columns or to the right of the other columns of categorical subdivisions. The most common attribute used to identify categorical subdivisions is position. Second is color. Fill pattern are only used when bars are used.