The sign says …

“92% of guys say they washed, 34% were lying”
It’s always difficult to present some meaningless data, what even more difficult is how to make the people take action after they see the numbers.
And … here is one very good example of calling for action (don’t you think so ?):

Presenting data

What will you do to present Number of deaths for leading causes of death. Let’s say the meaningless data will be something like:

Heart disease: 652,091
Cancer: 559,312
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 143,579
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 130,933
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 117,809
Diabetes: 75,119
etc.

Here is probably the best way:

See, will that help you to rethink how to present your data ?

Made to stick

Finished the book Presentation Zen (see below) some time ago but still I was puzzled by one thing. That is, even we can create the most eye-catching slides with today’s advance graphic software, but how can we make the message we send across stick in the audiences’ minds ? It’s the reason we do the [...]