If you were analysing some data for someone (stats), in what kind of format would you send it to them in an email? Powerpoint? Word doc written up much like a results section in a paper? Word doc with key results highlighted - not as detailed as in a paper? My brain feels frazzled. Suggestions would be appreciated.

Sorry, I'm not sure there's an easy answer... Depends on what they're going to do with them.

If I was preparing them for someone in my epidemiology department, I'd probably send them the excel workbook with text boxes describing the key messages of the graphs, as I'd expect them to tweak the graphs as they like.

If sending to someone with less analysis skills, I'd send it in a word document as a report if I needed to describe assumptions or limitations with the data.

If they wanted graphs for a presentation, I'd probably put them in PowerPoint with a key message or two for each graph.

Thanks for the reply. I think we're going to write a paper around them. It's a supervisor from overseas I've started working with and am going to be visiting in a few months. I've never really worked with anyone in this way before, and feel a bit unsure of stuff. It doesn't really need any graphs (pretty plain to see what's what from a table and a few sentences explaining it), which is why I was thinking word doc. But on second thoughts, having read your reply, maybe I should attach the actual dataset too, so that they can do their own thing if they want. Frazzled!

Sounds like a good plan to me

I've decided to stop dithering and just do a word doc with the main results plus attach dataset. : ) Thanks for your help chantedsnicker.