Show something simple. Leave behind something detailed.

5. Sketch and/or prototype your own version, and critique yourself.

It will help with subsequent activities if, while you’re talking, you find and jot down a short phrase or sentence that becomes the working answer to What am I trying to say?

ANTECEDENTS

Why it may be deceptive.

NELSON DAVIS SEEING WHAT NO ONE HAS SEEN BEFORE “I’ve never seen myself as a data expert. A lot of people have better data skills than I do. I sit between the data world and the art world.”

Do specific data points have to be available to discuss

and may allow someone to do some of their own visualizing—extends the usefulness of your presentation beyond the formal group setting.

CHAPTER 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF DATAVIZ THE ART AND SCIENCE THAT BUILT A NEW LANGUAGE