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9. Which graph is easier to look at?
10. Which table allows you to see the areas of poor performance more quickly?
The Future of Data Presentation
One of the masters of displaying data during live presentations is Hans Rosling, a public
health professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. With his amazing
ability to unveil the beauty of statistics, Rosling has become a bit of a super star. His
talks during the annual Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conferences have
been seen online millions of times. In an interview with Paul Miller of the Cloud
Computing Podcast, Rosling claims that good data can tell a story, but it is up to us—the
presenters—to let this story out. It is up to us to show it in a way that connects with an
audience. The data, he says, are like musical notes that must be played to be truly
appreciated.
...few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes.
Most of us need to listen to the music to understand how beautiful it
is. But often that's how we present statistics: we just show the notes,
we don't play the music.
