Class 2, Part 3: Present Your Results Through Data Visualization - Northwell/ZSOM Advancing ERSD - Putting It All Together (PIAT): The Art of Writing for Dissemination

Resources Shared In Part 3 of Class No. 2: Writing the Results

Welcome! We hope this class on visualizing your results and writing them up was helpful to you. Take a look at the resources we shared with you during the session. Find one or two that speak to you and start there for a deeper dive.

Books On Writing - Writing the Results section

Story, not study : 30 brief lessons to inspire health researchers as writers by :Lorelei Lingard & Christopher Watling
ISBN: 9783030713638
Publication Date: 2021
Many researchers dread writing. They find it laborious - even painful - to put their scholarly work into words. They get bogged down in the study, and lose track of the story. And they produce uninspiring papers that fail to resonate with readers or reviewers. This book offers an antidote to this problem: brief, accessible lessons that guide researchers to write clear and compelling scientific manuscripts. Rooted in a coaching philosophy, we aim to unlock our readers' potential as writers through instruction, reflection, and example. This book gives an excellent overview of how to write each section of a manuscript.
The Scientist's Guide to Writing, 2nd Edition by Stephen B. Heard
ISBN: 9780691219189
Publication Date: 2022-02-08
The Scientist's Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists need to write more clearly, efficiently, and easily. This book gives a wonderful, thorough guide to writing the Results section. There's also helpful information about writing up the statistical analysis.
Write It Up : Practical Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles by Paul J. Silvia
ISBN: 9781433818141
Publication Date: 2014-09-01
How do you write good research articles -- articles that are interesting, compelling, and easy to understand? How do you write papers that influence the field instead of falling into obscurity? Write It Up offers a practical and revealing look at how productive researchers write strong articles.This book gives an incredibly helpful guide to writing the Results section. There's also helpful guidance about writing up the statistical analysis.

Writing the Results Section

Writing the Results
Bahadoran, Z., Mirmiran, P., Zadeh-Vakili, A., Hosseinpanah, F., & Ghasemi, A. (2019). The Principles of Biomedical Scientific Writing: Results. International journal of endocrinology and metabolism, 17(2), e92113. https://doi.org/10.5812/ijem.92113

Advice from Published MD on Writing Statistics

From PLOS: How to Report Statistics

Review this guide from PLOS for authors on how to create a results section that ensures appropriateness and rigor, avoids flexibility and above all never manipulates results.

Books by Edward Tufte - The Visualization Expert

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 2d ed. by Edward R. Tufte
ISBN: 9780961392147
Publication Date: 2018
This is the classic book on statistical graphics, charts, and tables. Now in its tenth printing, the author discusses theory and practice in the design of data graphics and provides 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis.

Visit the author's website and review all four of his classic books on data visualization.

Learn additional insights and thoughtful guidance on how to bring your data to life on the page.

Books and Resources on Statistics

Northwell Health offers GraphPad Prism free to you to use to statistically analyze and visualize your data in a sophisticated and accurate way. Contact your Librarian to learn more about getting a seat license to use this product for your research. GraphPad Prism also provides an intensive deep dive for anyone seeking to learn more about statistics, as well as a comprehensive video library to learn all you need to know about statistics.

Statology is a site that makes learning statistics easy. Learn more about the site and its author, a statistician with experience with healthcare statistical analysis. It provides great posts on how to report statistics, such as How to Report P-Values in APA Format (With Examples) and a number of useful calculators, all for free.

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics by Neil J. Salkind; Bruce B. Frey
ISBN: 9781544381855
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Now in its Seventh Edition, Neil J. Salkind's bestselling Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics with new co-author Bruce B. Frey teaches an often intimidating subject with a humorous, personable, and informative approach that reduces statistics anxiety. With instruction in SPSS®, the authors guide students through basic and advanced statistical procedures, from correlation and graph creation to analysis of variance, regression, non-parametric tests, and more. The Seventh Editioni ncludes new real-world examples, additional coverage on multiple regression and power and effect size, and a robust interactive eBook with video tutorials and animations of key concepts.
Statistics II for Dummies by Deborah J. Rumsey
ISBN: 9781119827399
Publication Date: 2021-11-09
Packed with fresh and practical examples, this easy-to-understand guide covers such key topics as sorting and testing models, using regression to make predictions, performing variance analysis (ANOVA), drawing test conclusions with chi-squares, and making comparisons with the Rank Sum Test.
What Is a P-Value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics by Andrew Vickers
ISBN: 9780321629302
Publication Date: 2009-11-18
What is a p-value anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day. What is a p-value anyway? is the perfect compliment to any introductory statistics textbook and will succeed in demonstrating the everyday importance of statistics to your class.

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Northwell/ZSOM Advancing ERSD - Putting It All Together (PIAT): The Art of Writing for Dissemination: Class 2, Part 3: Present Your Results Through Data Visualization