Reading that your country, a EU and G8 member, is the 65th best place to do business in the world isn’t enough: understanding what it means does. A picture is worth a thousand words? Probably, in this case, millions (do not complain about the visual side: you can reuse it and improve its visual appeal). Announce: I always had the idea of learning R to be able to share my number crunching in a more visually appealing way; thanks to Coursera and John Hopkins, it is now just a matter of few hours; therefore, I will soon add other number crunching examples... maybe along with R scripts to allow you to reuse them. You can always find the (free) edition of my business books on http://www.slideshare.net/robertolofaro (sometimes full books, sometimes key chapters useful for your own publishing, consulting, training and overall change activities). The (low price, of course!) printed and Kindle versions are available on http://astore.amazon.com/getarothewor-20 Aim: spread ideas, and collect feed-back (visit my profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertolofaro)

1. Reading that your country, a EU and G8 member, is the 65th best place to do business in the
world isn’t enough: understanding what it means does.
A picture is worth a thousand words? Probably, in this case, millions (do not complain about the
visual side: you can reuse it and improve its visual appeal).
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This small chart shows not
only how each group is doing
vs. the others, but also how
cohesive is each group.
Of course: the lower on the
left-hand scale, the better.
Aim: sharing some ideas
visually- but based on data.
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100
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60
Italy 65
40
France 38
20
Germany 21
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Legenda
the «box» in the middle of each bar show where the countries «pack»
the small lines above and below show the «range» of positions within the group
the names are, hopefully, self-explanatory
Prepared on 2013-11-27 on data from «Doing Business 2014», A World Bank Group publication
Contact: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertolofaro
Creative Commons for Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (i.e. use it as you see fit, just add the source and link)
thanks to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFbPnwKwVWk for the example on how to do a box&whiskers with Excel