Quartz/Chartbuilder Marian Dörk The 6 Presenter Types: Which one are you? | @powerfulpoint 3 bullets on a slide. 1 slide per minute. Stand Still. Don’t fidget, memorize your slides. Now get up in front of a 100 people and do what I just told you. Over the last 10 years we’ve worked with thousands of clients in a range of industries. There are 6 types of presenter. Diagnose your presenter type. 1. Is an energetic and personable speaker, who’s great at connecting and engaging people by doing and role-playing. The Coach can quickly lose passion and enthusiasm with a low energy audience. The Coach will dive right into building a deck and start with the slides that come easily. Example: Rick Perry 2. Typically the last person to volunteer to make a public presentation, the Inventor is very good at connecting ideas for people and building logical sequences. The Inventor has difficulty holding large quantities of information in their head. The Inventor will start building a deck right away, by either writing a script or building slides. 3. Example: Barack Obama 4. 5. 6.
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools HCIL - Visualization We believe that the future of user interfaces is in the direction of larger, information-abundant displays. With such designs, the worrisome flood of information can be turned into a productive river of knowledge. Our experience during the past eight years has been that visual query formulation and visual display of results can be combined with the successful strategies of direct manipulation. Human perceptual skills are are quite remarkable and largely underutilized in current information and computing systems. Based on this insight, we developed dynamic queries, starfield displays, treemaps, treebrowsers, zoomable user interfaces, and a variety of widgets to present, search, browse, filter, and compare rich information spaces. There are many visual alternatives but the basic principle for browsing and searching might be summarized as the Visual Information Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. Current Projects Past Projects
Feedly Review & Rating The long death knell of Google Reader (which will be discontinued this summer) may be tolling, but that doesn't mean that your RSS adventures need to die just yet. If you're looking for a new RSS reader that can serve as suitable replacement, the free Feedly may fit into your online reading routine quite nicely. It acts as a browser bookmarklet for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that delivers news feeds to your browser and syncs to Android and iOS mobile apps, too. Lightweight and easy to use, Feedly is an RSS reader you should check out. Setup and NavigationThe Feedly entrance page has a minimalist, lime-green design that has the logos of various publications aligned on the bottom of the interface. Once you grant Feedly the right to access your Google account, it quickly loads your homepage. Note: the official Feedly blog has migration tips for a seamless transition before Google Reader's July 1, 2013 cutoff date. Adding new sources is dead simple.
What I Learned Recreating One Chart Using 24 Tools Back in May of this year, I set myself a challenge: I wanted to try as many applications and libraries and programming languages in the field of data visualization as possible. To compare these tools on a level playing field, I recreated the same scatterplot (also called a bubble chart) with all of them. Based on the results, I published two listicles: One for data vis applications and one for data vis libraries and programming languages. An overview of all the tools I tried can be found in this Google Spreadsheet. Now I’ll take a higher-level view and compare these tools with each other; mapping out my learnings. Full disclosure: My experiment was highly influenced by the tools I already knew before I started trying new ones. Here’s a GIF of me recreating the same chart with 12 different apps: And here’s a picture of all the different outcomes of the charting libraries: Let’s start! There Are No Perfect Tools, Just Good Tools for People with Certain Goals Analysis vs.