ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the best practices for presenting summarised data. The end goal of a data analysis is a presentation of the findings in a paper for a reader who is unfamiliar with the work. Quantitative findings are presented in a way that is maximally informative and requires a minimum of effort on the part of people reader to understand them. The general rule of thumb when presenting people's data is that their graph should communicate the relationships between numbers clearly and honestly without providing redundant information. The goal of variationist sociolinguistic work is to determine whether particular linguistic variants are used more or less by some group or in some context as compared to some other groups or contexts. Animation has been used as a wildly successful tool for displaying change over time in data that is presented digitally. The results can be rendered unclear when a wrong type of graph is chosen for presentation of the data.
