9780970601971-0970601972-Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

ISBN-13: 9780970601971
ISBN-10: 0970601972
Edition: Second
Author: Stephen Few
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Analytics Press
Format: Hardcover 371 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780970601971
ISBN-10: 0970601972
Edition: Second
Author: Stephen Few
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Analytics Press
Format: Hardcover 371 pages

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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten (ISBN-13: 9780970601971 and ISBN-10: 0970601972), written by authors Stephen Few, was published by Analytics Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Decision-Making & Problem Solving (Management & Leadership, Communications, Business Skills, Business Mathematics, Running Meetings & Presentations, Decision Making, Data Modeling & Design, Databases & Big Data) books. You can easily purchase or rent Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Decision-Making & Problem Solving books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $4.16.

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Most presentations of quantitative information are poorly designed—painfully so, often to the point of misinformation. This problem, however, is rarely noticed and even more rarely addressed. 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. Even the best information is useless, however, if its story is poorly told. This problem exists because almost no one has ever been trained to design tables and graphs for effective and efficient communication. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten is the most accessible, practical, and comprehensive guide to table and graph design available.

The second edition of Show Me the Numbers improves on the first by polishing the content throughout (including updated figures) and adding 91 more pages of content, including: 1) A new preface; 2) A new chapter entitled "Silly Graphs That Are Best Forsaken," which alerts readers to some of the current misuses of graphs such as donut charts, circle charts, unit charts, and funnel charts; 3) A new chapter about quantitative narrative entitled "Telling Compelling Stories with Numbers"; and 4) New appendices entitled "Constructing Table Lens Displays in Excel," "Constructing Box Plots in Excel," and "Useful Color Palettes."

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