Show Me the Numbers

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Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten

by Stephen Few

  • My rating: Rated 5 out of 5
  • Read: April 2013
  • Published: 2004
  • Pages: 371
  • Category: Data visualization and cartography

My review

This book must be on my table every time I make a graph or table from now on. It is really sad that I didn't bother to read it earlier.

I like Few instructive style. He has strong opinions about the way some visualizations are made (read pie charts, for example). However, he really does an excellent job arguing why he thinks they don't work. When something works it is not (only) because he thinks he does but because there is a scientific research behind.

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