Heath,Chip

Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers/ by Chip Heath and Karla Starr - UK : Bantam Press, 2022. - xvii,172p.

1.Translate everything, favor user-friendly numbers. --
Translate everything ;
-Avoid numbers : perfect translations don't need numbers ;
-Try focusing on 1 at a time ;
- Favor user-friendly numbers --
2.To help people grasp your numbers, ground them in the familiar, concrete, and human scale. --
-Find your fathom : help people understand through simple, familiar comparisons ;
-Convert abstract numbers into concrete objects ; -
Recast your number into different dimensions : try time, space, distance, money, and Pringles ;
-Human scale : use the Goldilocks principle to make your numbers just right --
3.Use emotional numbers (surprising and meaningful) to move people to think and act differently.
-Florence Nightingale avoids dry statistics by using transferred emotion ;
-Comparatives, superlatives, and category jumpers ;
- Emotional amplitude : selecting combos that hit the right notes together ;
- Make it personal : "This is about you" ;
-Bring your number into the room with a demonstration ;
-Avoid numbing by converting your number to a process that unfolds over time ;
-Offer an encore ;
-Make people pay attention by crystalizing a pattern, then breaking it --
4.Build a scale model.
-Map the landscape by finding the landmarks ;
-Build a scale model you can work with ;
- Epilogue: The value of numbers --
Appendix: Making your numbers user-friendly.-

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Visual communication
Information visualization

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