Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

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Show Me the Numbers is a master class in the principles and practices of data visualization. It’s an ideal guide for anyone involved in communicating with numbers – whether you’re a business professional, analyst, researcher, or student. And if you’re a fan of Teach Yourself VISUALLY Power BI, you’ll find Show Me the Numbers a complementary read. Gleaning Insights from Data 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. A must-read for anyone developing reports or dashboards." --Cindi Howson, founder, BI Scorecard, and author, Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App If you are looking for practical, easy-to-follow guidelines for presenting numerical data, this is the best book there is. Stephen Few's examples are elegant, and his advice is right on the money." --Colin Ware, professor, University of New Hampshire, and author, Information Visualization: Perception for Design 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.

Although some quantitative data sensemaking can only be done with sophisticated statistical techniques, most of the questions that organizations typically ask about their data can be answered using simple visualization techniques—techniques that can be learned by people with little or no statistical training. In other words, Now You See It is for the great majority of people whose jobs require them to make sense of quantitative information.

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Mode and midrange – mode is the most often value in the set of values, midrange in the midway value between the highest and lowest values in a set of values. However, there are a lot of benefits to less traditional, more creative methods of visualization. I experimented with visualizing information with Play-Doh, and the project really resonated with people. A unique design has the ability to grab people’s attention the way a simple bar chart might not.” One of the advantages of bidirectional tables is that they can display the same information using less space. Graphs variations Not just 'a' book on statistical graphics, it is 'the' book on statistical graphics. No other book has influenced my own view on the visual presentation of quantitative evidence as much as this. A true masterpiece." --Alberto Cairo, author, The Functional Art Color is made up of three separate attributes: hue (red, green, blue, …), saturation and lightness (both intensity features).