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Posts Tagged ‘edward tufte’

Presenting Data and Information | Seminar

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

As I mentioned awhile back I attended the Presenting Data and Information Seminar by Edward Tufte. I’m currently going through an exercise where I’m trying to best present information, so I thought it’d be a good time to revisit (and type up) my notes.

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Tags: edward tufte, infographics, presentations, seminars
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Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information Seminar

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

A couple year’s ago I attended Edward Tufte’s class Presenting Data and Information seminar (highly recommended). His seminar was very eye-opening and since then I’ve been quite a fanboy. I try to incorporate his methods in everything I do. I was pleased to find these copious notes on Tufte’s class. I took some notes and have spent some time highlighting passages from his four books that I’ll document at some point here. Also worth checking out is his essay on PowerPoint.

Tags: books, edward tufte, infographics, presentations
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TinyGraphs and SparkCode

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Anyone who spends a lot of time creating “scorecards”, “dashboards”, “metrics” and such in Excel, should really be using TinyGraphs, a free sparkline (term coined by Edward Tufte) generator. For those of you who have a bit of a budget, try SparkCode Professional.

Tags: edward tufte, excel, infographics
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No More PowerPoint at Microsoft

Monday, May 18th, 2009

I understand that PowerPoint is a necessary evil, but I loathe the bullet-point heavy presentations most people put out there. (Hint, go check out Presentation Zen to change that). Edward Tufte (infographics rockstar!), who also loathes PowerPoint, notes that Microsoft is steering away from using its own product.

Tags: business, edward tufte, meetings, presentations
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