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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 highlights some of today's most effective methods. In clear, concise language, the author answers such common questions as: What constitutes an effective graph for communicating data? How do I choose the type of graph that is best for my data? How do I recognize a misleading graph? 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 to allow your data to be understood.

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She adopts a bookbook format providing hints on graphs in one, two and more dimensions, scales, visual clarity and so on...the page design- with half of every page blank - is refreshingly easy on the eyes. Inclusion of examples is generous. (Junk Charts 2008) ...deserves to be on the desk of every researcher and postgraduate student... (Current Science, September 2006) ...a valuable teaching resource. (Statistical Methods in Medical Research, February 2006) ...the author has managed to accomplish what most technical people have been unable to do before--make graphs fun...you'll never look at any graph, the same way again. (OnceWritten.com) Novice and experienced graph designers alike, as well as many individuals ultimately responsible for reading graphs, will benefit from reading this book. (Technical Communication, November 2005) Using real-world examples, Robbins draws on her years of experience in graphical data analysis and presentation to highlight some of today's most effective methods. (Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Summer 2005)

"""She adopts a bookbook format providing hints on graphs in one, two and more dimensions, scales, visual clarity and so on...the page design- with half of every page blank - is refreshingly easy on the eyes. Inclusion of examples is generous."" (Junk Charts 2008) ""...deserves to be on the desk of every researcher and postgraduate student..."" (Current Science, September 2006) ""...a valuable teaching resource."" (Statistical Methods in Medical Research, February 2006) ""...the author has managed to accomplish what most technical people have been unable to do before--make graphs fun...you'll never look at any graph, the same way again."" (OnceWritten.com) ""Novice and experienced graph designers alike, as well as many individuals ultimately responsible for reading graphs, will benefit from reading this book."" (Technical Communication, November 2005) ""Using real-world examples, Robbins draws on her years of experience in graphical data analysis and presentation to highlight some of today's most effective methods."" (Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Summer 2005)"

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NAOMI B. ROBBINS, PhD, is President of NBR, a leader in consulting and training in graphical data presentation. A recognized expert in the field, she has spoken on the subject of creating effective graphs at universities including Columbia University and McGill University, professional societies such as the Society of Women Engineers and the Society for Technical Communication, and corporations and organizations that include Lockheed Martin, Brookfield Zoo, and the United Nations. She is an officer of the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association and has served the New Jersey Chapter of the ASA as President. She was a statistician at Bell Laboratories before forming NBR.

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