Making Data Meaningful Guides

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has been releasing a series of guides about communicating with statistics and part 3 is now out:

Communicating with the media (PDF) – a practical tool for producers of statistics find the best way to get their message across and to communicate effectively with the media.

The Making Data Meaningful guides are intended as a practical tool to help managers, statisticians and media relations officers in statistical organisations use text, tables, charts, maps and other devices to bring statistics to life for non-statisticians.

Earlier editions are below:

• Part 1: A guide to writing stories about numbers (PDF)
• Part 2: A guide to presenting statistics (PDF)

The thorough guides are excellent practical primers and the latest one features quite a bit of social media applications.

Thanks to our colleague Peter Davis for pointing out this resource set.