Tag: Presentations

How to Declutter Your Cluttered Stacked Bars

Sep 24th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations

I have a love-hate relationship with stacked bars charts. They’re a great way to show part-to-whole patterns (like an easier-to-read pie chart). But, like pie charts, they feel overwhelming once we add a bunch of different categories. Are they the worst chart of all time? Perhaps. Here’s how to make stacked bar charts more bearable.

How to Visualize Demographic Data: From Boring Bullet Points into Great Graphs

Sep 11th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations

There’s nothing more boring than a slide full of bullet points! Bullet points scream, “I cared so little about my audience that I made these slides on the airplane last night.” In this article, I’ll share the step-by-step process I followed to get rid of bullet points and replace them with engaging visuals.

How to Transform Your Slideshow’s Bullet Points into Images

Jul 24th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations

A few weeks ago, I showed you how to transform allllllllll of your presentation’s information into just a few main chunks. You can visually chunk information by creating divider slides and by using consistent colors and icons. This post focuses on body slides. In particular, I’ll provide a few examples of how you can transform a list of bullet points into visuals.

How to Visually Structure Your Presentation Around Key Points

Jun 26th, 2018 / Presentations

There’s nothing worse than presentations that drone on without a clear message. You know the feeling: You’re sitting in the audience at a conference. The speaker goes on and on. And on. And on. In this post, I’m going to share tips for visually structuring your presentation around a few key points.

When Your Graph Is Too Smooshed to Read

May 29th, 2018 / Data Visualization, Presentations

You want to display a lot of historical data–great! But sometimes we have so many points in time that our graph’s labels get smooshy. In this post, I’ll show you a before/after data visualization makeover in which we selectively labeled a few key milestones in order to tell our story (and make the graph more legible).

How to Write Your Reports in PowerPoint Instead of Word: Nine Tips for Getting Started

Apr 3rd, 2018 / Data Visualization, Reports

While PowerPoint may not be your first thought when it comes to creating reports, guest blogger Nick Visscher shares nine tips on how to get started writing reports in PowerPoint.

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