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Visual Business Intelligence - Dental work by road workers with jackhammers — Dashboard design gone awry

would spend half an hour commenting on each dashboard you post, and perhaps
mocking up a more effective substitute, it would make your blog and your
collection of dashboards a much more worthwhile read

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17 Jul 09

Seth's Blog: How to make graphs that work

break too many rules, it'll backfire. If the graph is hard to grok, or
appears tweaked too much, we cease to believe it. [and the
Onion

chimes in, ht to Tom]

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18 May 09

Ask E.T.: Lousy PowerPoint presentations: The fault of PP users?

The common defense of bad PowerPoint presentations is that they are the
"fault of the user,
not the tool."
This point raised by PP advocates in fact provokes a rich and complex
question about
nearly any type of expressive performance: What are the
causes of presentations?
Here are excerpts on these matters from my essay on PowerPoint:

www.edwardtufte.com/...q-and-a-fetch-msg - Preview

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14 May 09

Pie for Dessert Again? | PTS Blog

Rather than a pie chart, make a nice bar chart, oriented with horizontal bars.

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Nextgov - Officials recognize telework demands more than lip service to thrive

As the Office of Personnel Management moves forward with a
governmentwide
telework policy
, it should set strong performance metrics that are
appropriate for individual agencies, and pay attention to training employees in
using technology, according to proponents of the practice.

www.nextgov.com/...ng_20090512_8768.php - Preview

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06 May 09

Charting Best Practices in PowerPoint | PTS Blog

Jan Schultink shows that effective charting practices work
in PowerPoint as well, in his Chart make-over example on
Slides that Stick. He gives an example taken from some financial data from Skype.

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