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Beauty, abstraction and storytelling
Garr Reynolds, consummate presenter. Check out those slides – just beautiful. I’m a huge fan of his book, too – Garr’s presentational style is really something to aspire to: simple, elegant, and entertaining. Also, he frames everything using stories, something … Continue reading
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Why cartography is such a good communication tool
Maps are a brilliant way of communicating information. For me, maps work on two levels. The first is that they provide a visual representation of a landmass — or figurative landmass, like the organisation of a company, the brain, or the Dewey … Continue reading
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Ignore visual metaphor at your peril
I went to a research talk recently. It was a brilliant example of how to talk lucidly about science despite having poor graphical representations of the data. The the speaker was youngish, eloquent, and unashamed of it (more people should … Continue reading
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