How To Lie With Charts: Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Gerald Jones
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $23.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 275856
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 302
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1419651439
Dewey Decimal Number: 657
EAN: 9781419651434
ASIN: 1419651439
Publication Date: October 24, 2006
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Product Description
If you're using a computer to generate charts for meetings and reports, you don't have to be taught how to lie-you're already doing it. You probably don't know your charts are unreliable, and neither does your audience. So you're getting away with it-until a manager or a sales prospect or an investor makes a bad decision based on the information that you were so helpful to provide. The main focus of How to Lie with Charts is on the principles of persuasive-and undistorted-visual communication. It's about careful thinking and clear expression. So don't blame the computers. People are running the show.
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An utterly invaluable educational and self-teaching tool that is absolutely vital to staying abreast of the information age. April 14, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Business, technology, and web development expert Gerald Everett Jones presents an updated second edition of How to Lie with Charts, a must-read for everyone in the information age. How to Lie with Charts is a folksy-toned, fun-to-read guide to how graphs, charts, tables, and other means of presenting statistical data can be effectively used to mislead. How to Lie with Charts is therefore inordinately valuable to anyone trying to make sense of news stories, business presentations, research data, or any other gathering of information presented in visual form, as it opens the reader's eyes to tips, tricks, and techniques commonly used to give false impressions. An utterly invaluable educational and self-teaching tool that is absolutely vital to staying abreast of the information age.
Don't let charts trick you! November 10, 2006
Patrick Corry (NYC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"How to Lie with Charts" is a must read for presenters, students and decision makers. Many tricks of the data display trade are revealed. Both how to lie with charts, and how to spot lying charts are demonstrated. This book rewards readers with clearly described methods applicable to the next presentation. Avoiding complex mathematical arguments, readers become chart literate. Fun to read and well-illustrated, "How to Lie with Charts", can save you from being misled and allow you to make your points tellingly.
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