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Happy Five Year Anniversary iPhone

January 9, 2012

How many of you watched this and was surprised as well?  

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Be Healthy, Eye of the Tiger

January 5, 2012

I just finished watching Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead on Netflix. It’s a documentary about a guy who decides to reboot his life by going on a juice only fast for 60 days. He lost weight and everything you would expect from such a drastic change in lifestyle. He was energized, didn’t rely on his [...]

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Formatting your document for readability: column width

August 15, 2011

Standard templates are not optimized for readability. A Word document has standard margins of 1″ on each side. With an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, that’s 6.5″ of text. PowerPoint is even worse. In landscape view, that is 9″ of text. Newspapers and magazines have been working on layout for years. They use narrow [...]

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Increasing the resolution or data density of documents

July 27, 2011

Most people read the newspaper, the one that’s printed on paper. The typical newspaper font size is between 8 and 9 points. A typical newspaper compresses a lot of information in a very small space. Large headlines are used to generate interest and the reader can selectively choose what he/she wants to read. Take a [...]

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Edward Tufte notes

June 22, 2011

I just got back from an Edward Tufte one day seminar yesterday. Below is just a transcription of my notebook. In the following weeks, I’ll highlight a few points. In the mean time, I suggest you attend a course if you can. It comes with four of his books. Otherwise, read them, they’re full of [...]

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How I built a visual thinking and graphic facilitation speciality

May 27, 2011

As an analyst, I spend my days working with data, defining business requirements, calculating, pivot tables, graphs, and analytical work. With an underdeveloped right brain, I set out to figure ways to integrate my creative artistic abilities into my analytical work. It started out with a discussion with a friend over coffee about how she’s [...]

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Nancy Duarte interview on business communications

May 24, 2011

I’m a huge fan of Nancy Duarte, publisher of Slide:ology and Resonate and owner of Duarte Design. This short interview really sheds light on the need to take business communications up a notch. I love how she says that it’s not an excuse to be dry because the material is dry.

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Behind the scenes of a data driven infographic

May 16, 2011

XPLANE, a Dachis Group company just posted an amazing detailed piece on the process they took to gather salary data, normalize it, then turn it into a high impact explanation graphic. I find the steps were incredibly comprehensive and thoughtful to develop just one graphic.

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