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Your Data Wants a Makeover
Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation. When handled correctly, complex scenarios and data can still be included while being transformed into something that is easily comprehensible to the average audience member.
No, this does not mean packing seemingly endless charts, tables, and graphs onto every slide. What it does [...]
Topic: Delivery, Design, Strategy, Video
Tags: airside, crisis of credit, data, jonathan jarvis, power gap, simple, simplify
Cheating by Charting. An excerpt from Spear’s Practical Charting Techniques
There are few of us who, at at one time or another, have either exaggerated or shaded the truth by either bragging or playing down a story. What we say may not be an untruth, but we want to emphasize one fact to a certain party, and a different fact to another.
The same bragging or [...]
Topic: Book Reviews, Design, Strategy
Tags: charts, data, grid, trend, truth, visual image
It Used to Take Three Highly-Trained Professionals to Make a Presentation
The opening line in my new MOST favorite book is, “The response to a visual presentation will determine its value.” No, this is not a newfangled book on presentations written this year, it’s the book “Practical Charting Techniques” written in 1969 by Mary Eleanor Spear, the statistician of governments and Presidents. My good friend Glenn [...]
Topic: Book Reviews, Diary
Tags: chart, data, glenn hughes, mary eleanor spear, practical charting techniques
Using Maps in Presentations
In a world of global business, maps seem to be all but unavoidable in presentations… and sadly end up as little more than a cliched slide “filler”.
Maps get over-used because they can be a lazy way to “add some more graphics” to a presentation. The most common offenders are “Corporate Locations” maps that are [...]
Topic: Design, Message
Tags: data, infographic, maps
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