Informing the Nation: Official Statistics and Communication Dr Siu-Ming Tam Australian Bureau of Statistics 17 September, 2010
Informing the Nation: Official Statistics and Communication
Dec 30, 2015
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Informing the Nation: Official Statistics and Communication
Dr Siu-Ming TamAustralian Bureau of Statistics17 September, 2010
ABS Canberra
Learning from musicians
“ABS Presents …….”
“If Australia were only …”
•
Florence Nightingale
• Pioneered the use of charts to tell stories
We do not want impressions.
We want facts.
You complain that your report would be dry. The drier the better.
Statistics should be the driest of all reading - William Farr, RG of Births and Deaths, Great Britian, 1861
Farr’s doctrine
Nightingale’s doctrine
Pyramidisation
A tale of two cities
Visploration
Key points
• Statistics need to be communicated• New tools to be used to tell stories
include:– “ABS presents”– “If Australia were only ….”– “Pyramidisation”– “Visploration”
– Further information– www.abs.gov.au/betaworks– [email protected]
Thank you!
Visploration
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