Analytics Press
News
March 31, 2005
The book Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables And Graphs To Enlighten is a Writers Notes book award winner in the business category
Oakland, CA – Analytics Press is pleased to announce that Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables And Graphs To Enlighten is a Writers Notes “Notable” in the business category for 2005. Every year, Writers Notes recognizes excellence in publishing with The Writers Notes Book Awards. Books are awarded cash, prizes, and distinction on three levels in descending order: Winner, First Runner-Up, and Notables.
Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, by Stephen Few, is the first practical and comprehensive guide to table and graph design written specifically for business. From it employees and students will learn to display data clearly and to drive their message home.
“Poor data presentation is a problem that is all the more insidious because it is largely unrecognized,” asserts the author, Stephen Few. “There are so few examples of well-designed tables and graphs, the fact that the vast majority of the rest fail to communicate effectively is rarely noticed and even more rarely remedied. Yet businesses pay for these failings continually in the form of bad decisions.”
“Anyone who cares about gaining competitive advantage will find Show Me the Numbers invaluable,” says Jonathan G. Koomey Ph.D., President of Analytics Press. “It’s a step-by-step handbook to effective graphical display that speaks both to the needs of the middle manager and to those of the CEO, while also being useful for business analysts, graphic artists and researchers” says Koomey.
Stephen Few has more than 20 years of experience as an innovator, consultant, and educator in the fields of Business Intelligence (a.k.a. Data Warehousing and Decision Support) and Information Design. Today, as Principal of the consulting firm Perceptual Edge, he focuses on the design of business information for effective analysis and communication.
For more details, go to http://www.analyticspress.com/.
Show Me the Numbers:
Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
by Stephen Few
$45 hardcover, 265 pages.
ISBN 0-9706019-9-9, Pub. Date (1st printing): September 2004.
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Interviews with Stephen Few may be arranged via:
Perceptual Edge
Phone: 510-558-7400
E-mail: sfew@perceptualedge.com
Website: http://www.perceptualedge.com/
Analytics Press, a member of the Publishers Marketing Association, has since the year 2000 taught critical thinking skills by publishing books, course materials, and software, and by organizing seminars and workshops.
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Oakland, CA 94620-0313
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Also from Analytics Press:
Turning Numbers into Knowledge:
Mastering the Art of Problem Solving
by Jonathan Koomey, Ph.D.
$34.95 hardcover, 221 pages.
ISBN 0-9706019-0-5, Pub. Date (2d printing): September 2004.
Website: http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com