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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
by Stephen Few
from Analytics Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Very good if you target your reading
  If you are like me, you are probably a very busy person. You pick this book up because you would like to improve a certain aspect of your employment skills: tables or graphs. This isn't a skill that will make or break your career, so it is something you want to be able to pick up quickly.
  One great thing about this book is that you can flip through the pages and see many great and obviously poor examples - Few makes the contrasts between these examples very clear. Without reading a word, you would... more info

• Show Me the Numbers
  The book is good for someone that has never used or dealt with the design and graphic presentation of data. This book is NOT for someone who has skill in developing tables and charts for presentation, and is looking for new and different ways to present data.

• A Reference for Tables & Simple Charts
  A complete book on tables, and simple graphs. Stephen Few seems to follow the same scarcity principles as Edward Tufte when it comes to "ink". Here the additional bonus is that the author compares many "good" yet subtly different charts so that you get a good intuitive feel for selecting the most appropriate one. He plays with contrasts, colors, type, alignement, column ordering and more. After reading this book, you will know how to make well designed tables and charts that can really make the numbers... more info

• Practical Tufte
  This book is a gold mine of practical information for the creation of tables and graphs. I really like the Tufte books as well, but have found them to be more general and difficult to apply. Few takes those ideas, adds many of his own and shows the nitty gritty of creating useful charts. I've been looking for a book like this for a long, long time.

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