Waseda Business School

A Thesis Guide to Chart and Table

Well,actually..

Waseda Business School

A Thesis Guide to Chart and Table

Source :http://www.waseda.jp/wbs/student/degree_

thesis_mba_fulltime_global_en_2.html

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Wait,Why we need

guide?

Admit it, The formal guide is s*#%~…

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That’s why,let’s excel on what can be change immediately :

Shall westart then?

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The Basic Design

Principal

Finding The Right

Chart

Chart & Table

Design Tips

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4 Simple Approach

5 Shades of Data

Big Chart of Chart

It Start with F… for Flat

Meaningful Color Contrast

Label is love. Label is life.

Don’t hesitate with the Others

Hide Behind The Bar

Ordering The Pie, Plus Doughnut

Schrödinger Table

God Save The Attachment Picture

4 Simple Approach (by Dona Wong)

Finding The Right Chart

Source : http://www.businessweek.com/

Use lines for trends,

vertical bars for discrete quantities,

horizontal bars for ranking,

and pies for shares of the whole.

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5 Shades of Data (by Hubspot)

Finding The Right Chart

Compare Values

Composition of Something

Understand Data Distribution

Analyzing Changes

Relationship Between Data

Source http://blog.hubspot.com/

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Big Chart of Chart (by Andrew Abela)

Finding The Right Chart

Source: Choosing a good chart2 (PDF)

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It start with F…for FLAT

The Basic Design Principle

Flat style is an effective way to conveying your points.

Simple to create, & less distraction for reader.

Also, its not a recent trend, Dona Wong from WSJ has been doing it for a years.

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It start with F…for FLAT

The Basic Design Principle

NO SHADOW

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The four point on the left is what flat style consist of. Arguably, you can use little hint of shadow or gradients, but for now let just stick with the basic

Hubspot have an article that will guide you step by step on achieving the essence of flat style design.

Meaningful Color Contrast

The Basic Design Principle

Being academic paper (or final report if you believe MBA shouldn’t write thesis), doesn't mean its should be boring.

Use color sparingly, and give accent color as focal point among your data.

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Matchbility Pricing Usability

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Matching App Comparison

Our Product Next Leading Brand

The other guy

Label is love.Label is life.

The Basic Design Principle

The audience is not Sherlock. Please named your data.

Don’t let them lost on guessing did the X-axis killed the Y-axis?

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Don’t hesitate with the Other

The Basic Design Principle

Be gentle to your audience, show them relevant data only. Limit your

result chart up to 5 value, and named Other for the rest.

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Hide BehindThe Bar

Chart & Table Design Tips

Make the bar wider, make people see it, even from far.

The bar width is your focus, not the empty space between the bar. 0

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WBS Student Satisfaction

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Ordering Pie, Plus Doughnut

Chart & Table Design Tips

A simple rule on ranking the pie chart: order them from biggest to smallest, and move clockwise from 12 o’clock.

Also keep the data up to 4-5 variable.

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Sosial Media Users

Personbook Slowgram

Quitter Mytube

Others

Ordering Pie, Plus Doughnut

Chart & Table Design Tips

When your data onlyconsist of 2 variable (Yes/No, Male/Female)Doughnut chart might give better impact on selling your sweet data.

Survey Participant

63%Female

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Schrödinger Table Chart & Table Design Tips

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ImportantPoint Case A Case B Case C

Financial Situation 111 222 333

StrengthsPut long text here

Put long text here

Put long text here

Weakness Another Text Another Text Another Text

OrganizationalStructure

Complicated Text Here

Complicated Text Here and some more.

Complicated Text Here

Who said you need a vertical line to called a table, Table?

God Save The Picture Attachment

Chart & Table Design Tips

Either for copyright reason or using other font in your chart as protest to Waseda, copying your chart from excel then paste as picture in Word might be life saving tips.

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God Save The Picture Attachment

Chart & Table Design Tips

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Hard copy book

Available to purchase at http://www.amazon.co.jp/

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Informations Graphics by Dona M. Wong.A simple and professional guideline of presenting data to beginners. The book will teach you more about how to coloring you chart, labeling your data and arrange you graphic.

Find it on Waseda Commerce Library, Block G(Japanese version only)

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E-book (pdf)28

Visage is a data visualization company. Their ebook on slideshareare resourceful on how to present your data. The one featured here is basically a visual summary of Dona Wong’s book, but doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be taken easy.

For further reference on presenting your data, check their blog.

Download this presentations

as .pptx

+Install Fira Sans, free font from Mozilla to recreate beautiful

slide like this.

BONUS

by

Amil Ramdhan (WBS 2014) @arapunya