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Beyond Bullet Points, by Cliff Atkinson After reading Tufte’s booklet on the Cognitive Style of PowerPoint and Doumont’s rebuttal, I wanted to see what this pro-PowerPoint presentation style was about. So, with full knowledge that the title was from Microsoft Press, I took the bait. It was very interesting. The gist of the […] Information Dashboard Design – The Effective Visual Communication of Data, by Stephen Few. OK, this title included a lot of the information (verbatim) from Few’s Show Me the Numbers. It made sense to review it, given that he was again discussing effective visual communications. If you only want to read one of the […] Show Me the Numbers – Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten, by Stephen Few. I read this book based on a strong recommendation from Chip Denman during his presentation on “Information and Disinformation.†He recommended it during the Q & A session, in response to a question about what to read to learn […] Christopher Hitchens blurred his way through the first lecture on Friday morning. He was ill-miked and a bit hard to understand. That said, his speech was very strong and very interesting (if President Bush wants to “teach the argument†in public school science classes, then tax-exempt churches should have to teach atheism too). I […] |
