Download Free PDF. Amanda Izenstark. A short summary of this paper. Every day, we're confronted with new uting copies of the slides, especially since the slides technologies, interfaces, or tools we need to present to should be simple and visually oriented.
Instead, he rec- our audiences, whether they're patrons, students at the ommends creating a separate, stand-alone handout that reference desk or in a class, or even our faculty. What our supports and supplements your presentation. This can be audiences have in common is an information need, and a concise, 1 page summary and bibliography, or a longer they want to find out about the tools that will help them piece that covers the main points of the presentation in satisfy it.
Despite these needs, though, our audiences may more detail. How, then, do we rope them in — and be informative — without overwhelming them?
The chapter "Crafting the Story" emphasizes storytel- ling as a presentation technique. The academic library is full of stories: the students whose professor told them not Garr Reynolds' book, Presentation Zen, provides to use the Internet, the student who waited until the last some possibilities. While most of this book is aimed at an minute, and so on. Weaving stories into the content helps audience who would be using slideware such as Power- create a presentation that your audience will remember.
Point or Keynote in the corporate world, there is much This is furthered by a segment written by marketer Seth Godin describing the presentation as a "transfer of emo- here that librarians can use when preparing and fine- tion" from the presenter to the audience. Referring to the tuning their presentations. Almost eleven years ago, just after TED began experimenting with putting some of their talks on the web, I wrote this post called "If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters.
Rosling from his TED Talk:. If you want to know how he did all those graphics, go to gapminder. It's all there. Hans is saying the problem is not the data. The data is there. But it's not accessible to most people for three reasons: 1 For researchers and journalists, teachers, etc.
His solution is to make the data free, let it evoke and provoke an 'aha' experience, or a 'wow! I loved the way he got involved with the data, virtually throwing himself into the screen. He got his point across, no question about it. From that point on, I watched virtually every talk he made and featured him in every book I wrote on presentation.
I saw the professor in person at TED and was a fellow presenter with him at Tableau in Seattle where he, as usual, had the crowd of data geeks in the palm of his hand. Hans Rosling is that master. His contributions are immense, and he will be missed deeply. Below is Dr. Rosling's debut at TED It's as good now as it was then.
Hans Rosling presented at TED ten times, more than any other presenter. Below are links to a selection of other posts from presentationzen. Rosling's presentations over the years. I'll continue to do whatever I can to spread his teachings in future.
His work will continue to inspire and educate. We need his message of a fact-based worldview now more than ever. Here is part of today's announcement by Anna R. Across the world, millions of people use our tools and share our vision of a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. We know that many will be saddened by this message. Hans is no longer alive, but he will always be with us and his dream of a fact-based worldview, we will never let die! Let us all remember Professor's Rosling's contributions and continue to keep the dream of a more fact-based, rational worldview alive.
Posted at PM Permalink Comments 0. Edward Tufte is a leading expert in the data analysis and data visualization space. His books are classics and required reading for anyone interested in understanding how best to display quantitative information.
I read his books just after I left Apple in to become a college professor in Japan. His books are foundational. I've talked about Tufte in my own books and on this website going back to at least this post in I have not seen him speak recently, so I was happy to see this minute presentation by Dr. Microsoft's David Smith introduced Dr. Tufte at the mark. Video and transcript also available on the Microsoft website.
Highlights In his talk, Tufte warns against confirmation bias and massaging the data to arrive at findings that are desirable or somehow in your interest. He paraphrases one of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous lines: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. To do this he recommends specifying your analysis first before you collect the data. I think this is the future of confirmatory data analysis.
We can learn from it. We can run it through powerful exploratory things. We can run it like a map through millennial time and look it over and say, that look interesting To go back on innocent data, maybe somebody miles away does it. Maybe that's better, independent replication of the search results to distinguish now between noise and signal.
Something simple as can be, but it was one of the most important things he said in his talk. After talking about the need for us to learn about the entire process of data and analysis and to go out in the field and watch directly how original measurements are made, Tufte said this: "In doing creative work do not start your day with addictive time-vampires such as The New York Times, email, and Twitter.
All scatter the eye, and mind, produce diverting vague anxiety, clutter short-term memory. Instead, begin with your work. Many creative workers have independently discovered this principle. And finally this bit of wisdom concerning data analysis and thinking in general. The most powerful question you can ask yourself, and of others is: "How do I know that? How do you know that? How do they know that? They are beautifully designed and well made. Over the years I have come back to these books often.
Of course, the examples are dated, but the principles are the same and the examples hold up well and you can easily apply the concepts to modern problems.
And they are just beautiful, smart books. Posted at PM Permalink Comments 2. There is loads of evidence that reading to children at bedtime is not only good for their emotional well being, it also has long-term benefits for their cognitive development. We have a 6-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy. Since they were babies they have been exposed to books.
Bedtime stories are one of the great joys of parenting and is a nightly ritual for us. As it is the Christmas season, I thought I would recommend two books here that do a great job of presenting their material in an engaging, visual way. There are many editions of this classic tale, but based on the amazing and numerous reviews on Amazon, I purchased Robert Sabuda's The Night Before Christmas Pop-up last year in time for Christmas.
The pop-up art is amazing and imaginative. I was not sure at first that I would want a pop-up book for story time, but the great thing about the 3-D aspect of it is that the kids are always touching the paper and playing with the tabs and strings as the story progresses. They use their imagination to believe now that the story is about them and their house. In the final two-page spread, for example, a snow-covered town pops up with Santa flying over the houses.
My son will say something like "here is our house and this is our bed room window. It's a well-made book, but you need to be a bit careful with it, especially with infants. Still, if you are just a little careful, the pop-ups should keep working long after the kids are grown.
My 4-year-old son pulls tab to have Santa and his reindeer fly above the snow covered village. My 6-year-old daughter opens the page which reveals the eight reindeer and Santa scurrying down the chimney.
The second recommendation is not a pop-up, but rather a series of visual books that come with an audio reader than the child can control. It was an instant hit. The box comes with eight short illustrated books and a durable plastic electronic reader. Of course, I can read the book as my children follow along, but they actually prefer that I hold the book for them as they press the buttons on the reader to go through the story page by page.
The electronic reader is intuitive to figure out for the child. We got this Star Wars set over a year ago when my son was 3-years old and he knew how to navigate the analog menus after minutes of playing around. The narrator's English is extremely clear and easy to understand and I believe this has helped with their English pronunciation.
The kids don't just listen but repeat phrases from the book — "It's a trap! The Star Wars Radio Youtube channel has a preview of one of the books along with the audio for each book. This should give you a feel for what they are like. We've already gotten a lot of mileage of these books. There's a new book just out that focuses on improving the kind of presentations that scholars, researchers, and other technical specialists need to give.
Jonathan is an economist by training and an expert in data visualization. Jonathan also created the PolicyViz website which features a popular podcast that covers a range of topics related to effective communication and the display of data visualizations.
Recently, I was a guest on the PolicyViz podcast. You can hear that episode here on the PolicyViz website. Check it out. Posted at PM Permalink Comments 1.
When Toy Story opened in the US at the end of , it was met with enthusiasm and great critical acclaim. The film would go on to be the highest-grossing film of the year. There was tremendous buzz ahem about the film before it arrived here in Japan a few months later.
Much of the talk focused on the stunning 3-D animation and the remarkable technical achievements by Pixar to pull this movie off. I remember sitting in a movie theatre in the spring of in Osaka, Japan watching the film. I was a bit of a technology geek in those days so what propelled me to actually go see the film initially was the fact that it was the first truly digital animation feature film. And yet the thing that impressed me about the movie was that I soon forgot all about how the animation was created and just remembered being engaged by the story.
I wanted to see the film again and again. I thought it was perfect. Fast forward to today and I have seen every Pixar film ever made dozens of times.
I have two small children who adore all the Pixar films and I don't mind watching along with them. If there was a degree given out for watching Pixar films, then I'd by working on my PhD by now. I watch the films repeatedly because my kids ask to see them, and since our DVDs are in English the movies are more than mere entertainment. But truth be told, I love watching the Pixar films because I have learned so much about story structure, story elements, character, etc.
These films are designed for adults and kids to enjoy and you may not think there is much to learn from these animated features, but you'd be wrong. Lasseter has said that the first 18 months of working on Toy Story was spent laboring just on the script, that is, the story.
The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Garr Reynolds. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this business, design story are ,.
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