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 practice is based on these three rules: Be clear. (Strive for clarity. – William Cleveland) [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Skyrocket Science
Posted in Measurement, Reporting Evaluation/Assessment Results, Statistics, tagged charts, graphical data presentation, graphs, visual data representation on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A-One-and-a-Two-and-a-Three
Posted in Measurement, Statistics, Uncategorized on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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, copius, substantial, and voluminous. It’s a lot! But I’m more impressed qualitatively. Their message is [...]