Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

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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: 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. Helping you “show the numbers” and guiding audience to understanding is part of that plan. Super boring. I skipped over almost all of it except the end-of-chapter summaries and image captions.

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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 Data, in and of itself, isn't valuable. It only becomes valuable when we make sense of it. Weaving data into understanding involves several distinct but complementary thinking skills. Foremost among them are critical thinking and scientific thinking. Until information professionals develop these capabilities, we will remain in the dark ages of data. If you're an information professional and have never been trained to think critically and scientifically with data, this book will set your feet on the path that will lead to an Information Age worthy of the name. Making data simple is not so simple. Making data visually appealing can lead to misunderstandings. Data is not only about numbers but the meaning behind those numbers—their story. The solution, then, is to tell the right story about the data and guide the audience’s understanding of it. This leads to a shared interpretation. Additionally, different tools have different uses and features. An organization or presenter might need to use several different ones depending on the data and analyses they are conducting. If we rely on only built-in templates, our outputs look like the tool that created. You can often spot an Excel or Tableau chart by sight. These tools are immensely useful, but the end goal should be to produce cohesive, branded visuals across the full suite of content produced by the organization, and this often requires more than built-in templates. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

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. It's a textbook, easy to reference when needed. It even contains a short section on 3D charts. To summarize that section - just don't use 3D charts ... ever. Nancy wants designers to keep in mind that “data is finite and factual and should be visually represented as such.” She doesn’t like applying creative expression to data unless it enhances clarity or “builds important context for what you’re trying to convey.”

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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. 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. He mejorado mi percepción de lo que es un gráfico sin distracciones. He aprendido a identificar las relaciones entre números que representan los diferentes tipos de gráficos. You need to be able to answer the questions “why are you showing this to people” and “what do you want them to take away from it”. (…) Focusing on these kind of questions is especially important when trying to communicate complicated data through visualization as well. It’s also engaging to step through the data and use multiple slides or transitions to reveal things slowly. One chart, one message. One slide, one message. Anything more than that the audience needs to do a lot of cognitive work to understand the graph. 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 AppI really liked Information Dashboard Design and was hoping for more straight to the point hardnosed data professionalism. But this book was mostly wallowing in the minutiae of table design. 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? I also think there will always be a place for more bespoke data visualizations and designs, because something that’s unique is more engaging and grabs attention.” In September, Nancy Duarte—CEO of Duarte, Inc. and Guild Advisor—will publish her next book DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story. The Presentation Guild interviewed her about how to be accurate in the creative process of data storytelling: 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.