Comments on: Your Data Wants a Makeover

By: Ken Hilburn

Ken Hilburn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:52:37 +0000

Nichole, nice job at boiling this down. We see time and time again that data-based presentations are most frequently done by folks who are comfortable working in the data. The funny thing about folks like me… Er, um them is that “they” think the data can speak for itself and that everyone wants to see all that detail. But we know that it’s normally just exactly the opposite: people want you to tell them what conclusions you’re wanting them
to draw. After all, if you’re going to do a presentation like this, aren’t you trying to achieve a specific goal? If so, use data to achieve that.

Thanks again for pointing us to this and for pulling it all together!

By: Joby Blume

Joby Blume — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:15:51 +0000

Airslide would be a great name for a slide design agency. But these people are called Airside – check their website at http://www.airside.co.uk.

Thanks for the examples though. To me, the Airside/Demos example showed (a) the value of using images that weren’t self-explanatory, which engaged me and made me listen to the narrative (b) the limits of a ‘full screen great photo’ approach for explaining complex concepts.

By: Cathy Miller

Cathy Miller — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:04:38 +0000

uhh…make that “theme” – I promise I proofread on actual work. LOL!!

By: Cathy Miller

Cathy Miller — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:03:45 +0000

This is fabulous! The them of my writing is to keep it simple, clear and uniquely yours. This scores maximum stars for all 3–great job!!

By: Dinesh Rudra

Dinesh Rudra — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:16:37 +0000

Fantastic! My main goal in my (work)life is to be able to simplify complex concepts and transform them in a way such that most people will understand them.

Really nice work!
Just wanted to let you know that the link to Airside’s blog (just below the photo of Nat Hunter) links to Jonathan Jarvis’s site instead.

Thanks for this!
Dinesh