Sunday, March 04, 2007

More good stuff on presentation graphics

Even if PowerPoint is responsible for the dumbing-down of America, it's still a de facto industry standard. If we can't embrace it, we can at least try to tame it to serve our purposes.

Lisa Henn wrote the Rhetoric for Engineers list with a couple highly useful sites that supply presentation graphics tips. This one is especially loaded with good ideas for ridding PowerPoint slides of chartjunk.

And here's another one -- it talks about making a simple plot of dependent v. independent variable more readable. If you are waiting for Microsoft Excel to take care of plot readability for you, don't hold your breath.

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