December 18, 2013
Whenever you find your ideas are not landing, the problem is probably because they are not concrete enough. That is, people cannot imagine what your ideas […]
November 28, 2013
It’s Thanksgiving and what better way to celebrate than to recognize the greatest storyteller of all time. No, it’s not Steve Jobs or Martin Luther King […]
November 14, 2013
I’ve heard a lot of advice on how to make your slides look more professional. But one of the best pieces of advice is this: try […]
October 14, 2013
Congress is almost out of runway on a deal to lift the U.S. debt ceiling, with negotiations continuing and a number of issues on the table. […]
October 4, 2013
When someone looks at your slides, does their gaze sweep effortlessly through the slide? Or does it get bogged down on the largest objects, unsure where […]
September 29, 2013
As part of writing my new book “Storytelling with Graphs” I’ve studied 50 examples of graphs that tell stories. Some of them are publicly visible, such […]
September 17, 2013
I’m always interested in new ways to visualize data, so I was thrilled to discover a method for visualizing tables, which I call a “cobblestone table”. […]
September 3, 2013
Many very smart people will tell you that a good story has a structure: situation, conflict, resolution. And that’s ONE way to structure a story and […]
August 21, 2013
The secret to making slides that pop is color contrast. Watch this video showing how to select and modify colors to improve a slide’s appearance. […]