Are Your Graphs Cluttered, Ugly, Unprofessional And Next To Useless?

You're not relying on Excel to design your graphs, are you?

Microsoft Excel (and other analysis tools) produce default charts that honestly fail to meet the basic principles of excellent chart design! The poor quality of charts in management reports I have seen over the last 13 years frustrated me so much that I wrote this little book to show there's a better way! It's a downloadable pdf e-book available from our online store:

Are your graphs failing their purpose?

Are you a manager, project manager, supervisor, quality improvement practitioner, business analyst, data analyst or performance measurement practitioner who:

• is frustrated by how much time and effort it takes to produce reports that people aren't even using well, if at all?

• is having trouble with deciding the best way to chart your data, and not sure where to find simple instructions for great graphs?

• wants to discover the fundamental guidelines about how to produce the best graphs to support decision making?

• has a good grasp on data analysis but just wants to add some professionalism to the analysis results you produce?

If so, then some extra help is not far away...

It's just about applying some common sense.

One of the most common fears people have about performance measurement and graphs is that the statistical techniques they are based on will be too technical to really understand and master. Well, as it turns out, making the visual display of data (such as performance measures) so clear and concise and usable is actually based on a lot of common sense and a little bit of knowledge of how to use graphing applications like Microsoft Excel.

This e-book is filled with astoundingly practical and simple tricks that will be a cinch for you to apply to your graphs, and make them not only the best looking graphs you have ever produced, but also the best quality format of information to inform decision making.

You don't have to leave your computer!

Not everyone can afford to wait for the next training course in graph design (and there aren't many out there that really teach you the art of graph design which is above and beyond the techniques of producing charts with software). Within minutes you could have these benefits at your fingertips:

• as long as it takes to drink a cup of tea or coffee, you can make a to-do list of improvements to make to one of your graphs

• in a matter of minutes your graph will be transformed by simple formatting changes, chart type selection and effective use of titles and labels

• users of the graphs will make better decisions because your graphs will finally show what the data is really saying others will be more likely to draw the right conclusions

It's an easy to use reference book...

Here's what others have said about making graphs useful:

I Don't Have To Look Any Further "I found this book particularly useful once I had developed a comprehensive performance report for senior managers that included many graphs. I considered the principles presented in the book and directly applied them to my report. The principles are presented in a way that makes this easy. It's a book that I think I will regularly refer to in the future when developing performance reports." Leona Olsen, Brisbane, Australia

Curious about what's inside?

Here is the contents page and a sample page to give you a feel for what's inside this 78 page e-book.

The contents page of making graphs useful shows how the tips for dramatically improving the usefulness of your graphs are organised by the five principles of useful graphs:

A sample page from making graphs useful shows a before and after shots of an example chart for one of the tips: seeing the big picture in your data:

BONUS: An Excel Spreadsheet With Graph Templates!

Included in your digital download of the Making Graphs Useful ebook is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with a selection of the most useful graphs, already formatted to align with the principles of useful graphs, detailed in the ebook! That's got to save you time and energy.

Don't hold your charts captive with Excel anymore!

If you want to save time, save hassle and save money as you improve the visual effectiveness of your charts - add this e-book to your performance measurement how-to collection and put it to use by sprucing up one of your graphs today! 

Purchase online now, or via our faxback order form:

This ebook and bonus Excel spreadsheet is probably underpriced at AU$25 (plus GST if you're an Aussie) - so take advantage of it while you can!

Or purchase offline with our faxback order form.

And if you have any questions, please just email us at info@staceybarr.com and we'll respond to you within 2 business days (usually it's within 1 day).

Smiles,

Stacey Barr
the Performance Measure Specialist