Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Visual Communication
Hanspeter Pfister & Joe Blitzstein
pfister@seas.harvard.edu / blitzstein@stat.harvard.edu
This Week
HW5 due Friday, Nov 15.You should have started!
Prof. Calculus, Tintin Gyro Gearloose, Getafix (aka Miraculix), Heinz Doofenshmirtz,
Duck Tales Asterix & Obelix Phineas and Ferb
Effective Communication
Reasons to Communicate
1. Convey what you have learned in your project
Goal: Dont tell the audience what you did, tell the audience
the most important things they should know, but probably do
not.
Potential problems with what you did (did you consider all edge
cases?)
Cole Nussbaumer
Dont Bury the Lead
Cole Nussbaumer
Unexpectedness
Make the audience aware that there is
something they didnt know they didnt know
A. de Saint-Exupry
Less is More
KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
E. Segel
E. Segel
The Martini Glass
Fathom
Interactive Slideshow
NYT
Drill Down Story
Washington Post
Alberto Cairo
Connected Scatterplots
Time Magazine Redesign
excelcharts.com
New York Times
Alberto Cairo
Examples
M. Krzywinski & A. Cairo
Andrew Stanton, Pixar
Further Reading
Further Reading