When the editorial department of EE Times Japan offered me a series on "work-reform", I was quite confused.

I was not sure if I could put this theme on the series, "Let's turn the world with numbers."

Well, I can continue the series, however I am in trouble with the less of data.

The less data is, the more difficult to analyze with statistics or to create a simulation.

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So, I thought, "what other people are doing?", and I tried to review the editorials.

Anyhow as a "reading thing", from the viewpoint of an engineer, they were

"Terrible"

There are a lot of criticisms from the point of view of technical writing, but this time I will omit that.

However, even if I focus on the "data" perspective,

It is wildness that there is no numerical data, or Even if there is, they will put huge numbers into one phrase.

The "data" has been treated as "even elementary school students' free research is not so bad."

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I tried to assemble data of books of others in my head, so I understand the reason.

They can not write graphs or tables with that data.

They only take out the appropriate representative numbers and simply list them.

For example, to write a line graph, they need at least two points of data on the same dimension (the plane of X and Y axes). However they don't show even that.

Well, even if there is, at best, it will be a very boring graph with only one line(Still, it must be useful in terms of seeing the scale of the data).

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In other words, writing a graph or table conversely lowers the credit of the column (and thus the trust of the author's intelligence).

"They do not use graphs" is the best strategy for them.

(Continuation from yesterday)