Chapter 14

Almost Ten Tips for Presenting Table Results and Analyzing Data

In This Chapter

arrow Working hard to import data

arrow Designing information systems to produce rich data

arrow Remembering to forget about third-party sources

arrow Always exploring descriptive statistics

arrow Watching for trends

arrow Cross-tabulating and re-cross-tabulation

arrow Charting it, baby

arrow Being aware of inferential statistics

Throughout the pages of this book, here and there I scatter tips on analyzing data with Excel. In this chapter, however, I want to take a step back from the details of data analysis and offer a handful of general tips. Mostly, these tips summarize and generalize the things that I discuss in the preceding chapters of ...

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