Hi Dennis/ Vera,
I recommend the National School of Government (training organisation for civil servants and other public sector workers like us!). They used to run an excellent 3 day course called Presenting Data and Analysing Statistics. I had it brought in house for myself and my entire Team because I thought it so essential.
They are now running a one day module called 'Effective Data Presentation' http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/programmes/programme.asp?id=25236 which, although I cannot specifically vouch for, is probably being presented by the same top notch people as before.
The course does require a basic knowledge of excel I note, so I am not entirely sure of the read across. I was myself not really excel savvy and got through it pretty well. This one promises to cover:
* Some fundamental numerical concepts, needed for charting
* The importance of identifying messages and understanding audiences
* Basic standards and best practice for presenting tables
* Reading a table
* Guidelines for layout, rounding and aggregation
* Basic standards and best practice for presenting graphs
* Relationship between messages, tables, charts and text
* What works - and what does not
It looks like it splits the stuff we did between this module and 'Data Exploration' http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/programmes/programme.asp?id=25234 - but this one sounds most akin to your requirements as stated.
I'm betting substantial discounts await those who team up with others in their organisation (as we did) and bring it in-house.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Dave
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Colleagues
I am not a statistician nor mathematically inclined. However, after presenting numerous equality and diversity monitoring report to others I believe that I need either affirmation that I have been doing it correctly or knowledge on how to do it better.
I am looking for a very short learning event on statistical presentation. By short, I mean something that is less than a day. From this I will learn how to present specific types of data in form that is as objectively accurate as possible; ascertain trends; is readily understood by others who are neither statisticians nor mathematicians; and yet makes sense.
Do you know of such an event? If you do I would be grateful for the information.
DennisB
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