- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; illustrated edition edition (25 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198607229
- ISBN-13: 978-0198607229
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #16 in Books > Science & Nature > Mathematics > Numerical Analysis
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A book of practical advice and useful tips on how to present numeric information in the clearest and most effective way. This lively, accessible, and illustrated guide is divided into two sections. The first provides comprehensive advice on what to consider when preparing numeric information for presentation, standards for presenting tables and graphs to the public, including the relative merits and uses of tables and charts, and the presentation of figures in both written and spoken form. The second section contains useful checklists, case studies, and exercises to aid the writer, as well as a helpful glossary.
About the Author
Sally Bigwood is a trainer and consultant specialising in presenting numeric information as well as working part time as an IT project manager for Manchester Health Authority. She has over twenty years' experience as a researcher and corporate planner in the public sector as well as having private sector experience in the UK and the United States. She and Melissa Spore are sisters.
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This review is from: Presenting Numbers, Tables, and Charts (One Step Ahead) (Paperback)
This is an excellent book. If everybody who produced tables and charts were to read and digest even a tenth of what it says, then the business world would run ten times as smoothly!It combines a lot of theory from a lot of different sources and packages it into a very practical book that can be either read cover-to-cover in one go, or dipped into as and when needed. The tone is fairly prescriptive - perhaps a little too unequivocal at times. I run training courses in communicating information and have encountered some of the arguments made against - for example - the use of gridlines in tables or the use of 'snappy' titles for charts. So perhaps a slight criticism would be that the book could've recognised more of the arguments against some of its precepts. But that is a very minor quibble. Let's face it, textbooks need to be prescriptive to be any good and this one certainly packs a lot of prescriptions into its 140 pages. Amazon could do a lot worse than offer this book as a 'Perfect Partner' every time someone orders Microsoft Excel!
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