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Useful Resources
Web Sites:
www.edwardtufte.com
The discussion board, 'Ask ET', on this site offers an opportunity to get advice from a world-leader in displaying quantitative information. The lively discussion ranges from production issues to Japanese animation. Always interesting.
www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/
Chance is a quantitative literacy course from universities in the United States. The web pages and the monthly Chance News focus on probability and statistics, not information graphics; but Chance offers an informative and entertaining site for learning more about how numbers work.
www.statistics.gov.uk
National Statistics Online, UK's official statistics site, contains massive information. Though the graphs are not as well designed as possible, the excellent tables can be downloaded.
www.statcan.ca
'Statistics: Power from Data!' offers advice on collecting, selecting and editing as well as presenting data. This site, nicely organised and clearly written for the lay person, is from the government of Canada.
www.isixsigma.com
Robert Niles, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, offers advice for journalists (who are famously innumerate). Sections on definitions, data analysis, and finding information.
www.timalbert.co.uk
Tim Albert is a UK-based company that specialises in running short courses on effective writing and editing skills for health professionals. Good advice for people writing scientific / medical papers for publication.
