Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few (Author). Most displays of quantitative information are poorly designed-painfully so, usually for the purpose of misinformation. This drawback, nonetheless, is never seen and much more hardly ever addressed. We use tables and graphs to communicate quantitative info: the essential numbers that measure the well being, determine the alternatives, and forecast the way forward for our organizations. Even the very best info is ineffective, nevertheless, if its story is poorly told. This problem exists as a result of virtually nobody has ever been skilled to design tables and graphs for efficient and efficient communication. Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten is probably the most accessible, sensible, and comprehensive guide to desk and graph design available.
The second edition of Show Me the Numbers improves on the primary by sprucing the content material all through (including updated figures) and including 91 more pages of content material, together with: 1) A brand new preface; 2) A brand new chapter entitled "Silly Graphs That Are Best Forsaken," which alerts readers to some of the present misuses of graphs such as donut charts, circle charts, unit charts, and funnel charts; 3) A brand new chapter about quantitative narrative entitled "Telling Compelling Tales with Numbers"; and 4) New appendices entitled "Setting up Desk Lens Displays in Excel," "Developing Field Plots in Excel," and "Useful Coloration Palettes."
Show Me the Numbers is a must learn for all BI professionals charged with designing studies, dashboards, and communicating insights from data. He begins with the basics on how our brains sift by photos, what we concentrate on, what distracts us, and why. There is a nice primer on different statistics, when making use of a tabular information set versus a graph, and which charts are best for particular analyses. Unlike many technical books in the marketplace at this time, Few additionally has produced a high quality, colorful ebook that additionally would make an incredible present!
It is a great desk useful resource for people that are in business intelligence, knowledge visualization or dashboard design that work with tools like excel, tableau or Microstrategy. That is one in all my favs - even before you purchase Tufte books, get this for a practical basis in knowledge design. It is the textbook for the class I want I took.
Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
Stephen Few (Author)
371 pages
Analytics Press; Second edition (June 1, 2012)
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