Monthly Archives: April 2010

Skyrocket Science

I am still on my excellence-in-graphical-data-presentation kick. Insufferably so, I am afraid. As my Feb. 16 post mentioned, the principles of high quality graphical data presentation have been articulated by William Cleveland, Edward Tufte, Howard Wainer and others. Good graphing … Continue reading

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A-One-and-a-Two-and-a-Three

There’s a goodly amount of good advice in the book What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World by Derrick Niederman and David Boyum (2003, Broadway Books). The quantity of this advice is sizable, considerable, hefty, … Continue reading

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