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69 Articles match "Data","US"
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
They make it easy by using tools that make it easy for you to embed the slides on your website, or share them via Twitter, Facebook and more (and I've added the SlideShare application to The Eloquent Woman on Facebook so you can share slides with us there .) The SlideShare Zeitgeist has been released, full of data on who's using the site, how and why (see above slideshow) -- and it turns out that men and women are using the site differently. SlideShare Zeitgeist 2009 Do you use SlideShare? It's a popular site where you can post your presentation slides--and it's considered
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Where are the data on that?" Create a bridge to take the topic in a new direction. "I think Fred's given us a good summary of what's in store next quarter. Give us a break. Sometimes humor softens an interruption and lightens the mood just enough to create an opening for your real question or point. On The Eloquent Woman on Facebook , reader Emily Culbertson referenced a recent post on Madeleine Albright, who urged women to "learn to interrupt," and posed the perfect follow-up question: But how? Here's what Emily wrote: In meetings or smaller groups, what are
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Not all of us can be as riveting as maths lecture wizard Matthew Weathers.
O’Leary makes the valuable point that in communication terms, “economics is just a collection of little data points of human behavior.” If you present with numbers, you know how hard it is to bring them to life. Here are some useful tips from Lizzie O’Leary of Bloomberg News, an organisation that faces a daily challenge of presenting endless numbers without giving their audience a general anaesthetic.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
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.
What it does mean is that with the right finessing, even incredibly complex data can be picked apart and rearranged in a simple and engaging way.
“The 8220;The Power Gap” (a new animated infographic by Airslide) is Simplicity does not necessarily mean skimping out on the meat of your presentation. No, this does not mean packing seemingly endless charts, tables, and graphs onto every slide.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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. Tags: Book Reviews Design Strategy charts data grid trend truth visual imag 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 playing down can appear artfully in many types of charts.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
He did a good job showing data without data charts
He wants us to innovate to zero.
Wow, Gates did a great job at TED this year. Why is he suddenly a great communicator and presenter? What has driven his transformation?
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Both seem to focus on telling a story that the audience will remember, rather than simply showing all their data."
TED Talk: Dr. and "Why does it matter (to me/us)?" People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering, Nobel-Prize winning significance, but I assume if you are talking about your research or current issues in your field, etc.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Lessons for 6th Graders (and us) - The You Blog John Windsor has a great article about working with 6th graders and giving them advice on how to prepare slides for their presentations on the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs. 27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis - Flowing Data If you have never read Nathan's blog Flowing Data, this is the perfect post to start reading. Instead of delving into something new today, I wanted to highlight some of the great posts and articles that I have found over the past couple of weeks that I felt needed to be discussed more.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Loosely speaking, the left handles data, facts, and analysis. Those of us who are sentient realize that the simple and compelling imagery we see in corporate PowerPoint presentations, on TV ads, and elsewhere in the media aren't rational. Compelling imagery can help you make an emotional and persuasive case: but intelligent people will also require data and analysis for their decision making process. This is Your Brain on PowerPoint. Our brains have 2 lobes.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
You can’t read this, but…” “This slide doesn’t show…” "This isn't the current data, but..." That will put us to sleep, even before you start speaking in that adorable monotone.
You You wouldn't want to show any emotion -- that might wake us up, right? There are an infinite number of ways to screw up a presentation, but I see some over and over again. Here are my 5 favorites.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
So earlier this week I was delighted when Christine, a PZ reader from the US, pointed to this interesting presentation by Ken Cook, the Founder of the Environmental Working Group. Many audiences will demand that the sources for a statistic appear on the slide itself, but at the very least you have to say what your source is before you show the data. When I was 17, before Macintosh was even invented, I gave my first multimedia presentation using two 35mm projectors. My topic concerned the environment and the dangers of air and water pollution.
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Monday, February 1, 2010
And so for the billion people who use Windows, for the perhaps as many as 300 million people who may buy a PC during the course of the next 12 months, we want to give a chance for people to have a better and better experience and at the same time, enable a world of new opportunities, new applications to do new things that you’re going to have a chance to see and witness as you’re here with us today.
Whether it’s all of the data that we get back from customers about how they’re using Windows and what they’d like to see different and improved, whether it’s the feedback we got from
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Intellectual means appealing to educated self-interest with data and reasoned arguments. recommended/lisaneal.html) I started using WordPress and would easily put it in my top 3 tools now (see lisaneal.wordpress.com to see how it has changed my life). Comments Reader Comments (3) Post Comment
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