1. Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts
Staff conference 2010
Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts
Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts
Presenter: Hugo Cosh

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Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts

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4. Outline Background Key principles Examples
Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts

5. Background Previous document – “Guidelines to Presenting Data”
Setting common standards for a geographically distributed team
Consistency
But not adhering to principles of good statistical graphics – work of Edward Tufte
Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts

6. Key principles Above all, show the data Refine your work to improve:
Bespoke design rather than “one size fits all”
Refine your work to improve:
Data to ink ratio
Data density
Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts

7. Examples
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Tables
Charts
Maps
Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts

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Getting your message across: how to produce better tables and charts