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Author(s): Naomi B. Robbins
ISBN(s): 9780471274025, 047127402X
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 27.79 MB
Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  047127402X

ISBN 13: 9780471274025

Author:  Naomi B. Robbins

A succinct and highly readable guide to creating effective graphs The right graph can be a powerful tool for communicating information, improving a presentation, or conveying your point in print. If your professional endeavors call for you to present data graphically, here’s a book that can help you do it more effectively. Creating More Effective Graphs gives you the basic knowledge and techniques required to choose and create appropriate graphs for a broad range of applications. Using real-world examples everyone can relate to, the author draws on her years of experience in graphical data analysis and presentation to highlight some of today’s most effective methods. In clear, concise language, the author answers such common questions In no time you’ll graduate from bar graphs and pie charts to graphs that illuminate data . . . most of them requiring only inexpensive, easily downloadable software. Whether you’re a novice at graphing or already use graphs in your work but want to improve them, Creating More Effective Graphs will help you develop the kind of clear, accurate, and well-designed graphs that will allow your data to be understood.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
1.1 What We Mean by an Effective Graph
1.2.2 The Data We Plot
Summary

2. Limitations of Some Common Charts and Graphs
2.1 Pie Charts
2.2 Charts with a Three-Dimensional Effect
2.3 Bar Charts: Stacked and Grouped
2.4 Difference Between Curves
2.5 Bubble Plots
Summary

3. Human Perception and Our Ability to Decode Graphs
3.1 Elementary Graphical Perception Tasks
3.2 Ordered Elementary Tasks
Summary

4. Some More Effective Graphs in One or Two Dimensions
4.1.1 Strip Plots
4.1.2 Dot Plots
4.1.3 Histograms
4.1.4 Jittering
4.2 Comparing Distributions: Box Plots
4.3 Relationship of Two Variables: Scatterplots
4.4 Time Series
4.5 Line Graphs
4.6 Comments
Summary

5. Trellis Graphics and Other Ways to Display More Than Two Variables
5.1.1 Stacked Bar Chart
5.1.2 Labeled Scatterplot
5.1.3 Trellis Display
5.2.1 Superposed Data Sets
5.2.2 Trellis Multipanel Displays
5.2.3 Scatterplot Matrices
5.2.4 Mosaic Plots
5.2.5 Linked Micromaps
5.2.6 Parallel Coordinate Plots
5.2.7 Nightingale Rose
5.2.8 Financial Plot
5.3 Comments
Summary

6. General Principles for Creating Effective Graphs
6.1 Terminology
6.2.1 Clarity of Data
6.2.2 Clarity of Other Elements
6.3 Clear Understanding
6.4 General Strategy
Summary

7. Scales
7.1 Aspect Ratio: Banking to 45°
7.2 Scales: Must Zero be Included?
7.3 When to Use Logarithmic Scales
7.4 Scale Breaks
7.5 Using Two Y Scales
7.6 Data Hidden in the Scales
7.7 Other Principles Involving Scales
Summary

8. Applying What We’ve Learned: Before and After Examples
8.1 Grouped Bar Chart
8.2 Ten Small Graphs
8.3 Radar Chart
8.4 Multiple Pie Charts
8.5 Tables
Summary

9. Software and Tools
9.1 Statistical Software: S Language
9.2 Drawing Programs: Illustrator
9.3 Spreadsheets: Excel

  • 9.3.1 Moving an Axis in Excel

  • 9.3.2 Line Charts with Uneven Time Intervals

  • 9.3.3 Dot Charts from Excel

  • 9.3.4 Data Labels with Excel
    Summary

10. Questions and Answers

  1. When should I use a table, and when should I use a graph?

  2. Should I use different graphs for presentations and for written reports?

  3. How do graphs for data analysis and graphs for communication differ?

  4. What should I use instead of pie charts?

  5. What if I just want an impression of the direction of the data? May I use three-dimensional charts?

  6. I use three-dimensional charts but include data labels. That’s OK, isn’t it?

  7. I want my graphs to attract the reader’s attention. How should I decorate them?

  8. Why do you think we see so many bad graphs?

  9. When should I use each type of graph?

Appendices

  • Appendix A: Checklist of Possible Graph Defects

  • Appendix B: List of Figures with Sources

References

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