EFFECTIVE DATA PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES

Prof. Phil Murphy and

Prof. Moyara Ruehsen

Tufte’s Five Secrets

• Find good examples and copy them

• Order data by performance, not alphabetically

• Convert numbers to graphics whenever possible

• Demonstrate your interest

• Establish your credibility

Consensus Baseline Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 Cluster 4 Outliers

Consensus

proportion 0.63* 0.69* 0.70* 0.71* 0.70* 0.48*

Homophily

Un-stdized

Coefficient

Sig.

Btwn Clusters 0.559 - -

Cluster 1 0.383 0.0000

Cluster 2 0.310 0.0000

Cluster 3 0.235 0.0032

Cluster 4 0.257 0.0004

Outliers -0.174 0.0224

R-square 0.097

* p<0.01

Density Table

0.94 0.75 0.68 0.61 0.50 0.87 0.19 0.57 0.51 0.80 0.45 0.18 0.82 0.42 0.39

For all clusters: p<0.001 Outliers: p<0.035

Homophily

Intra- vs. Inter-group Ties

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For all groups: p<0.01 Outliers: p<0.01

Consensus

Relative similarity of perception within groups

Blue: Political Boundary

Red: Physical Boundary

PULP

FICTION

PULP

FICTION

Is Balkan Trade Still Balkanized?

How free trade agreements are gradually

changing trading patterns on the peninsula

By Eugenia Volen

Population and Size of Economy

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Source: World Bank

Figure 2 Source: national trade statistics

By Eugenia Volen

Figure 3: Top export markets of SEE-9 countries (comprising top 50% of exports)

By Eugenia Volen

Figure 4: Top import sources for SEE-9 countries (comprising top 50% of imports)

By Eugenia Volen

Figure 5: Coordinator roles in SEE-9 export network Figure 6: Coordinator roles in SEE-9 import network

Node size represents proximity to other actors in network. Color denotes different levels of coordinator roles.

Generated in Pajek using national trade statistics data

Figure 8: Trading Blocks - Summary of sub-group analyses using Pajek and UCINET

By Eugenia Volen

By Eugenia Volen

P-core: at least 2 neighbors in same clique/sub-group

Factions: breaking the group into 3 sub-groups