Recommended Books

 


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, it highlights some of today‘s most effective methods. In clear, concise language, it answers such common questions as:

  1. What constitutes an effective graph for communicating data?
  2. How do I choose the type of graph that is best for my data?
  3. How do I recognize a misleading graph?

Whether you‘re a novice at graphing or want to improve the graphs you already use in your work, Creating More Effective Graphs will help you develop the kind of clear, accurate, and well-designed graphs that allow your data to be understood.




What others say:

Marvelous job. Certainly achieved your goal of reaching a less technical audience. Good idea on layout.
William Cleveland, Author of The Elements of Graphing Data

It is very clear and useful. Congratulations on a great addition to statistics education.
Louis Hicks, Chair of Department of Anthropology and Sociology
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Co-author of The First Measured Century

I highly recommend this book to anyone who draws graphs. In particular, MBAs would benefit from it. I personally found it to be very helpful.
Robert Allen, Author of Creating Wealth, Nothing Down for the 2000s


I liked this book a lot. I believe that the target audience will be well-served by its clear, relevant examples and lucid expositions. The business community relies heavily on graphics to make decisions and communicate ideas, but the quality of the graphs they use is often quite poor, as the book forcefully demonstrates. So I hope that it will receive a wide distribution and that readers will heed its sound advice.
Bert Gunter, former author of a regular column on statistics for Quality Progress magazine

If you want to improve your communications with graphs, read this book.
Mark Victor Hansen, Co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul



Recommended books on software to complement Creating More Effective Graphs:

Creating More Effective Graphs is not a how-to book on software use. Rather, it provides useful graph forms and principles for presenting data. Three books that complement Creating More Effective Graphs by showing the reader how to use software follow. Also, scroll down for two web sites that teach Excel users how to implement some of the methods using Excel.

Murrell
R Graphics by Paul Murrell describes the use of R, powerful open source software that is available for downloading at no cost. The recommendations of Creating More Effective Graphs can be implemented using R software. Much of the information contained in R Graphics is not available in any other book.
   
Walkenbach
Walkenbach’s book is highly recommended to those who use Excel to draw charts. Excel Charts tells how to get the effects you want with charts drawn with Excel. It shows how to produce charts you didn’t think Excel could produce.
   
Venables and Ripley
Modern Applied Statistics with S (MASS) provides invaluable help on the use of the S language with either S-Plus or R. I thank the authors for the many hours this book has saved me. MASS covers much more than graphs; any user of S-Plus or R will benefit from its examples.

Useful Web Sites

http://www.processtrends.com/pg_charts_dot_plots.htm

http://www.exceluser.com/dash/dotplot.htm


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