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By Rees Morrison
Data, for managers of lawyers, is only as good as someone can grasp it and learn from it. A graphic plot is not the only choice. When you present data to lawyers, you can choose among five primary modes: text, lists, tables, charts or infographics.
The message of this article is not at all that these means of presenting data are better or worse than each other. Rather it is that each serves a different purpose and demands different skills from those who use them. Descriptive statistics such as medians or averages can be handled with all five modes. Everyone who types can create prose and numbers in it, and most can conjure up a list, or even create a table. It does take additional training and time, however, to create graphs and often requires some preprocessing of the data. An infographic calls on visual and technical skills that are beyond most ordinary people.
Read the original article at: No Dumping: Data should be shaped for lawyers, not shoveled at them