The Book Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables And Graphs To Enlighten is a Semifinalist for the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Business Category

Analytics Press is pleased to announce that Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables And Graphs To Enlighten is a semifinalist for the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the business category. Every year since 1996, Independent Publisher Magazine (http://www.IndependentPublisher.com) has recognized superior books with the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

(PRWEB) May 16, 2005 -- Analytics Press is pleased to announce that Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables And Graphs To Enlighten is a semifinalist for the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the business category. Every year since 1996, Independent Publisher Magazine (http://www.IndependentPublisher.com) has recognized superior books with the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

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 pervasive but largely unrecognized problem in business," asserts the author, Stephen Few. The vast majority of the tables and graphs fail to communicate effectively, and businesses pay for these failings continually in the form of bad decisions."

Show Me the Numbers is an invaluable handbook for participants in business," says Jonathan G. Koomey Ph.D., President of Analytics Press. It teaches effective graphical display in a way that is accessible to middle managers, CEOs, 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.

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.

Analytics Press

PO Box 20313

Oakland, CA 94620-0313

Phone/fax: 510-547-7860

E-mail: numbers@numbersintoknowledge.com

Website: http://www.analyticspress.com/

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

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