82_writing_about_numbers.Rmd

# Writing About Numbers

## Introduction

While the fundamentals of writing about numbers are the same as any expository writing, there are enough nuances and specialized elements that it warrants special attention for data scientists. 


## Theory and methods

Jane E. Miller (2004) [_The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers: The Effective Presenataion of Quantitative Information_], University of Chicago Press.

Jane E. Miller (2007) [_The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis], University of Chicago Press.



## Data journalism

Andrew Ba Tran, [_R for Journalists_](https://learn.r-journalism.com/en/)

[.Rddj](https://rddj.info/): "Hand-curated, high quality resources for doing data journalism with R"

Storybench, [Welcome to Data Journalism in R](http://www.storybench.org/welcome-to-data-journalism-in-r-2/) at Northeastern University's School of Journalism

David Smith, 2016-07-27, [Data Journalism with R at FiveThirtyEight](https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/07/data-journalism-with-r-at-538.html), at [Revolutions blog](https://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/)


## Technical elements

Karim M. Abadir and Jan R. Magnus (2002) ["Notation in econometrics: a proposal for a standard"](http://www.principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/writing/abadir_magnus.pdf), _Econometrics Journal_, vol. 5, pp.76-90.


Andrew M. Edwards & Marie Auger‐Méthé, ["Some guidance on using mathematical notation in ecology"]
(https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13105), _Methods in Ecology and Evolution_, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (January 2019), pp.92-99.


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