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Organizing data in tables and charts: Criteria for effective presentation

Organizing data in tables and charts: Criteria for effective presentation

Instructor: Jane E. Miller, Ph.D.

Organization: Supercourse - University of Pittsburgh / Rutgers University

Delivery Mode: Online – self study

When offered: Ongoing

Cost: None

Prerequisite: None

Description: Researchers must organize data in tables and charts for a variety of reasons, ranging from presenting results for a statistical analysis, to describing trends or differences across groups, to reporting health data from public use data sets for other researchers to use in their own analysis. This tutorial describes a set of principles for effectively organizing data to suit the particular task at hand.

This tutorial is also available for download as a power point presentation. Please look for course 32271:

Following are the main objectives of this tutorial:

• To learn the different types of variables and how they affect choices for organizing data
• To become aware of different principles for organizing variables in tables or charts
• To learn the strengths and weaknesses of tables, charts, and prose for organizing and conveying numeric information