Six reasons for using visual charts

Book cover via Amazon

We all like charts. When I think about charts I really think about a graphical representation of something, could be a graph, could be a map, could be diagram, anything graphical really. We encourage people to use charts in presentations. I’ve looked at some “charts” lately, and thinking about what they do. This reminded me of Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin where he explain 6 kind of ways to communicate visually. We show:

Five things your too long presentation says about you

Hand of Time by Looking Glass

So your presentation runs longer than planned? What does this say about you?

Do you have the balls to be an artistic computer programmer?

Geometric Death Frequency-141 installation at MASS MoCA

Different people do different things with computers… Do you have the balls to develop a sculpture algorithmically and have a robot build it?

Frederico Diaz’ installation called Geometric Death Frequency-141 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
seems to have…

Even the 400-meter-hurdles has 4 turns!

Letzigrund Stadium (Zurich) by beatkueng

Like the 400 meter hurdles, the eight years hurdles is not run on the straight track. You therefore cannot run it as if there are no turns ahead. Unfortunately the track is not nearly as well-defined either. In fact, one of the more difficult aspects of the eighty-year-hurdles is to anticipate the turns.

Scared of not finishing the eighty-year-hurdles?

 

Finish Line by jayneandd

So you are taking it slow, checking things out, scared of making a mistake? Maybe you are afraid that you won’t finish the race. Well, the bad news is that this race doesn’t have an end; instead, all is in the participation! The thing with life is: none of us get out of here alive.

 

Now I’m not propagating that you don’t think about what you’re doing, or that you lead your life in an irresponsible way. No! Quite the opposite, I suggest that you always think, but not about the future, but about now, here, this moment and how you can make the best of it, right now. How can you be the best participant NOW?

The eighty-year-hurdles is a team sport!?

A Helping hand

Do you feel you are running a lonely race? Do you feel as if you’re struggling on on your own? In the eighty-year-hurdles we are not alone. Although you might perceive it as an individual race, you are allowed a team!!!