Presenting facts and figures

What is your key message? - Who is your audience?

How can we present facts and figures accurately, and ensure that our audience takes away the message that we want to convey?

Most people don't know what a percentage is

Make sure you understand the numeracy skills of your audience

Using infographics

Infographics are effective at communicating a lot of information quickly

Using graphs

Graphs are difficult for many people to understand.

Guides to visually presenting statistics

Infogram: What is an infographic

Reboot: a beginner's guide to more meaningful infographics

Easelly: a guide to making infographics from scratch

Venngage: infographics for beginners

Visme: How to make an infographic

Piktochart: 8 types of infographics

Canva: 40 brilliant and complex topics explained perfectly by infographics

Visualizing Percentages

The Guardian: how to make infographics

Useful Websites

More or Less

Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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Our World In Data

Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems

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Edward Tufte (The Galileo of Graphics)

Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University

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Understanding uncertainty

The site that tries to make sense of chance, risk, luck, uncertainty and probability.

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Communicating uncertainty and change

Guidance for official statistics producers

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Calling Bullsh*t: The art of scepticism in a data-driven world

Data Reasoning in a Digital World

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Infogram

Best data vizualisation resources

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The Undercover Economist

Tim Harford explains the economic ideas around us every day

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The Trouble with Fake News

Michele Belot, Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, argues that the problem posed by ‘fake news’ lies not in fake facts, which can be easily checked, but in the misleading interpretation of those facts.

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