April 2010

PowerPoint hysteria

There has already been a great deal of coverage across visualisation-related blogs and news sites about the reaction of General McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, to a slide he was was presented portraying the complexity of American military strategy. I can’t avoid the temptation to add my own contribution to

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The ‘Tesco’

Throughout the financial crisis broadcasters, politicians, journalists, authors, academics and other communicators have tried various techniques to try help make their message come of this complex subject as accessible and as digestable as possible. One of the key attributes of effective communication, as suggested by Dan and Chip Heath, is to make the message concrete. That

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Election debate live reactions

In today’s Guardian are details about some of the interactive tools that will be available for viewers who watch Thursday evening’s first prime-ministerial debate at www.itv.com/electiondebate. It describes a range of “sentiment” tools that will be deployed to measure live responses to the discussion between leaders of the three main parties: Gordon Brown, David Cameron and

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