Ubermarketer » data visualization http://www.ubermarketer.com Marketing in the internet age Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to make a great presentation and save the world at the same time http://www.ubermarketer.com/2008/04/28/how-to-make-a-great-presentation-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/ http://www.ubermarketer.com/2008/04/28/how-to-make-a-great-presentation-and-save-the-world-at-the-same-time/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:00:34 +0000 Kevin http://www.ubermarketer.com/?p=52

I first came across Hans Rosling’s presentation on global development many months ago, but only recently have I figured out what so intruiges me about this presentation. Quite simply, it is a perfect presentation, a thing to be admired and emulated by those of us who pride themselves on their communication skills and strive to deliver great presentations.

Slides: he has brilliant slides which match his verbal messages, while avoiding information overload despite the very complex and data-heavy subject matter.

Delivery: he exudes both enthusiasm and competence, combined with a witty and unexpected humor, that compels the audience to listen intently and openly.

Analysis: Rosling is clearly comfortable with statistics, but he also succeeds in making the lay person/the audience comfortable as well.

The executive summary on the TED website mentions “You’ve never seen data presented like this.” Indeed. We’ve rarely seen anything presented like this.

Its impossible to watch this presentation and not learn something new about the recent history of developing world. Perhaps you will be inspired to research more about global development, visit the personal website of Hans Rosling, or check out the software behind those fantastic data animations, as I did.

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Let this be just one more of the thousands of blogs that have already linked to this map: the Web Trend Map 3, from Information Architects Japan. Its a fascinating visualization of the world wide web and the 300 most influential websites (at least from the perspective of the authors) overlaid onto the train map of greater Tokyo. Übermarketer doesn’t seem to have made cut this year — I think its safe to say this blog would be nicely tucked away in the shadowy Toyko underworld.

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A data visualization guru once came up with a brilliant idea, a means to show vast amounts of data in the simplest way possible.  The only problem was figuring out how to make standard tools like Excel display these precious wonders, these sparklines.  Enter SparkMaker.  I’m sure there are other solutions on the market by now, but this sure seems like a nifty way to drop those sparklines into Excel’s cells.

SparkMaker from Bissantz

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