Show Me the Numbers
Stephen Few founded the consulting firm Perceptual Edge. He travels the world speaking, teaching, and consulting, and he publishes the quarterly Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter. He is also the author of Now You See It: Data Display for At-a-Glance Monitoring and Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring. Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise, and Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis.
Most quantitative information presentations are painfully designed, often to the point of misinformation. This issue, however, is rarely recognized and even less frequently addressed. We use tables and graphs to communicate quantitative information: the critical numbers that measure our organizations' health, identify opportunities, and forecast their future. Even the best information is useless if the story is not told well. Because almost no one has ever been trained to design tables and graphs for effective and efficient communication, this problem exists. Show Me the Number: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten is the most user-friendly, practical, and all-encompassing guide to table and graph design available. It is among the best books on graph theory.
The second edition of Show Me the Numbers improves on the first by polishing the content throughout (including updated figures) and adding 91 pages of new content, which includes: 1) A new preface; 2) A new chapter titled "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; and 3) A new chapter titled "Silly Graphs That Are Best Forsaken." 3) "Telling Compelling Stories with Numbers," a new chapter about quantitative narrative; and 4) "Constructing Table Lens Displays in Excel," "Constructing Box Plots in Excel," and "Useful Color Palettes," new appendices.
Author: Stephen Few
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Show-Me-Numbers-Designing-Enlighten/dp/0970601972/
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