May 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1440 pages
38h 6m
English
If a picture is worth a thousand words, it's easily worth a thousand numbers. Tables or columns of numbers often appear dry, uninteresting, and difficult to understand—but a chart that shows a graphical representation of the same information can impart instant understanding. It can enable you to see both individual data points and patterns, so you can spot developing trends you'd never notice just by looking at numbers. It can consolidate facts that communicate the big picture more clearly. Not least, well-designed charts make documents look better.
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If you'd like to know more about communicating effectively and honestly with charts, graphs, and statistics, consider these two classic books:
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