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Information Quality Applied: Best Practices for Improving Business Information, Processes and Systems
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Information Quality Applied: Best Practices for Improving Business Information, Processes and Systems

by Larry P. English
October 2009
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
839 pages
29h 16m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Information Quality Applied: Best Practices for Improving Business Information, Processes and Systems
Chapter 14 n IQ Applied to Document & Knowledge Management 695
KNOWLEDGE-WORKER FRIENDLY KNOWLEDGE-WORKER UNFRIENDLY
Colors are chosen so that the color-
deficient and color-blind (5 to 10 per-
cent of viewers) can make sense of the
graphic (blue can be distinguished from
other colors by most color-deficient
people).
Design is insensitive to color-deficient
viewers; red and green are used for
essential contrasts.
Type is clear, precise, modest; lettering
may be done by hand.
Type is clotted, overbearing.
Type is upper-and-lower case,
with serifs.
Type is all capitals, sans serif.
Principles of Graphical Excellence
The following are characteristics of effective Graphics:
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Well-designed presentation of relevant data — a matter of
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substance, of
statistics, and of design
Consists of complex ideas communicated with
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clarity, precision, and
efficiency
That which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest
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time with the least ink in the smallest space
Nearly always multivariate
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Requires telling
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the truth about the data
Principles of Graphical Integrity
The following are characteristics of Graphics Integrity:
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The representation of numbers, as physically measured on the surface of
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the graphic itself, should be directly proportional to the numerical Quantities
represented.
Clear, detailed, and thorough Labeling should be used to defeat graphi-
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cal distortion and ambiguity ...
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