{"id":8,"date":"2006-02-19T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T15:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-09-28T22:24:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:24:35","slug":"show-me-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Show Me the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0970601999%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1140370303%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Show Me the Numbers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0970601999%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1140370303%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\" target=\"_blank\">,<\/a> by Stephen Few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I read this book based on a strong recommendation from Chip Denman during his presentation on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Information and Disinformation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  He recommended it during the Q &amp; A session, in response to a question about what to read to learn how to communicate effectively with tables and graphs.  He said that this book was the practical place to start, after Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s books.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I enjoyed it.  The book is like a textbook, in size, binding and page layout.  There is plenty of room in the margins for notes and problem answers.  Early on, Few encourages the ready to use the margins for note-taking.  The organization of the book was very, very logical.  You could tell while you were reading it that the principles of the text had been applied to the text.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">In general, the book taught me how to decide whether to use text, a table or a graph.  Then I learned how to maximize the effectiveness of the table or graph, based on the theories of visual communication.   I should point out that I have never read anything about this subject before.  I was fascinated by it.  On to his book on Dashboards next.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Show Me the Numbers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, by Stephen Few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I read this book based on a strong recommendation from Chip Denman during his presentation on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Information and Disinformation.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He recommended it during the Q &amp; A session, in response to a question about what to read to learn [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}