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===Correction on the table === | ===Correction on the table === | ||
[[Image:Tablenewspaper03.jpg|center|841px|thumb|new designed table]] | |||
===Which changes have been made? Why is the changed one better than the original table?=== | ===Which changes have been made? Why is the changed one better than the original table?=== | ||
* | * Title should point on the year and the country in which the evaluation takes places. Our new title is: „Top 25 - USA Newspapers with electronic editions 2006/2007“ | ||
* Percent Numbers should have a + or – in front and a % behind the number to make the it easier to red. Place a percentage sign (i.e., %) immediately to the right of every percentage value (e.g., 8.75%). | |||
* | * If a header is used for two columns there can be just one header instead of one for every column (i.e. subheader 2006/2007) | ||
* Because we don’t want to suggest that the names of the months or the totals are | |||
Place a percentage sign (i.e., %) immediately to the right of every percentage value (e.g., 8.75%). | more important than the other data, we’ve used a row fill color. | ||
* | * Columns are not in chronological order. We have exchanged the rows 2007 and 2006 because the reading direction is from the left to the right. | ||
* Numbers have to be right-aligned with a , for a thousands digit and a . for a decimal place. Further they should have the same number of decimal place | |||
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Because we don’t want to suggest that the names of the months or the totals are | |||
more important than the other data, | |||
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chronological order | |||
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Revision as of 14:38, 19 November 2008
Aufgabenstellung
Exercise 2
Table to evaluate
Critics on the table
- The titel doesn´t contain of which year(s) the Top 25 is and you don´t know which period of the year is used. Because the reference source is from March 2007 and it is not possible that the "whole" years 2006 and 2007 are compared.
- The table shows the Top 25, but from the the way the lines are ordered its not easy to get the rank for example the Top 7. Further it´s not easy to follow the horizontal line, because there are grids and rules missing.
- The mean of the colum "Increase/Decrease" is not clear, what shall it mean?
- In the colum "Percent" after every data the symbol % is missing and only in some cases a decimal place is published.
- The column "2006" and "2007" is not in chronological order.
- The subtitle electronic editions is used two times.
- A comma is placed to the left of every three digits of numbers and the data aligne centered. So the direct comparison with the other lines is not possible - you get an false impression of the size of the number.
- Because of the way numbers are written and read, aligning them to the left or
center makes them difficult to interpret.
- The column “-Frequency” is not important because there is only one exception.
- It is difficult to track across the rows with this spacing.
- The name of the district is just published in same cases.
Correction on the table
Which changes have been made? Why is the changed one better than the original table?
- Title should point on the year and the country in which the evaluation takes places. Our new title is: „Top 25 - USA Newspapers with electronic editions 2006/2007“
- Percent Numbers should have a + or – in front and a % behind the number to make the it easier to red. Place a percentage sign (i.e., %) immediately to the right of every percentage value (e.g., 8.75%).
- If a header is used for two columns there can be just one header instead of one for every column (i.e. subheader 2006/2007)
- Because we don’t want to suggest that the names of the months or the totals are
more important than the other data, we’ve used a row fill color.
- Columns are not in chronological order. We have exchanged the rows 2007 and 2006 because the reading direction is from the left to the right.
- Numbers have to be right-aligned with a , for a thousands digit and a . for a decimal place. Further they should have the same number of decimal place
References
- [Few, 2004]:Stephen Few, Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, Analytics Press, 2004, Chapter 8 - Table Design.
- [Wallace, 2004]: Rosa Wallace, Designing Tables, NC State University LabWrite Resources, 2004. http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/gh/gh-tables.html