Warren Pearce and Nicola Underdown help you to present yourself and your data. We run courses, offer bespoke training and consultancy, and try to share useful things here.
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presenting in person and presenting your data
Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
A genuine classic: very influential book which set the terms for the clear and accurate presentation of data. Tufte delivers his treatise on how to present (and occasional polemic on how not to) with wry humour, clarity and a pile of inspirational examples.
The design of the book is part of its success: figures are integrated into the main text, treating them as part of our writing helps ensure that our figures have clear purpose and relevance to our argument. Tufte also has a great website including a stack of 'notebooks', high quality discussion boards around data presentation techniques.
Chip & Dan Heath: Made To Stick A jewel in the endless conveyor belt of pop-science/psychology books, Made To Stick provides great advice on communicating our ideas in engaging and memorable ways. Crucially, the book is extremely well referenced, often from the academic literature, so it conveys a credibility often lcaking in the genre. Essential.
Martha Davis: Scientific Papers & Presentations
While the data presentation literature has grown in recent years, there is, as yet, little sign of its influence filtering into mainstream academia. This Davis book, first published in 1996, remains the key text for students wanting to improve their communication skills. As well as a section on figures, it includes essential advice on communication in a range of contexts: conferences, posters, writing papers, academic proposals and more. While being aimed at the scientific community, most of the content is highly relevant to anyone in academia.
Local Government Unit Wales: A Guide To Presenting Data
Highlighted earlier on the blog, this short, sharp guide strips back the business of creating tables and figures to their bare essentials. So useful to have this on hand at all times. There's a full list of guides produced by the Unit here.
Warren Pearce and Nicola Underdown help you to present yourself and your data. We run courses, offer bespoke training and consultancy, and try to share useful things here.
Contributed by Warren Pearce
Warren Pearce and Nicola Underdown help you to present yourself and your data. We run courses, offer bespoke training and consultancy, and try to share useful things here.
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