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Hans Rosling passed away today in Uppsala, Sweden. He was just A profoundly mournful day for anyone who knew Professor Rosling, obviously. Rosling's work was seen by millions and will continue to be seen by millions worldwide. It is incalculable just how many professionals Hans inspired over the years.

His presentations, always delivered with honesty, integrity, and clarity, were aided by clear visuals of both the digital and analog variety. He was a master statistician, physician, and academic, but also a superb presenter and storyteller. Almost eleven years ago, just after TED began experimenting with putting some of their talks on the web, I wrote this post called "If your idea is worth spreading, then presentation matters. Rosling from his TED Talk:. If you want to know how he did all those graphics, go to gapminder.

It's all there. Hans is saying the problem is not the data. The data is there. But it's not accessible to most people for three reasons: 1 For researchers and journalists, teachers, etc. His solution is to make the data free, let it evoke and provoke an 'aha' experience, or a 'wow!

I loved the way he got involved with the data, virtually throwing himself into the screen. He got his point across, no question about it. From that point on, I watched virtually every talk he made and featured him in every book I wrote on presentation.

I saw the professor in person at TED and was a fellow presenter with him at Tableau in Seattle where he, as usual, had the crowd of data geeks in the palm of his hand. Hans Rosling is that master. His contributions are immense, and he will be missed deeply. Below is Dr. Rosling's debut at TED It's as good now as it was then. Hans Rosling presented at TED ten times, more than any other presenter.

Below are links to a selection of other posts from presentationzen. Rosling's presentations over the years. I'll continue to do whatever I can to spread his teachings in future. His work will continue to inspire and educate. We need his message of a fact-based worldview now more than ever. Here is part of today's announcement by Anna R. Across the world, millions of people use our tools and share our vision of a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. We know that many will be saddened by this message.

Hans is no longer alive, but he will always be with us and his dream of a fact-based worldview, we will never let die! Let us all remember Professor's Rosling's contributions and continue to keep the dream of a more fact-based, rational worldview alive. Posted at PM Permalink Comments 0. Edward Tufte is a leading expert in the data analysis and data visualization space. His books are classics and required reading for anyone interested in understanding how best to display quantitative information.

I read his books just after I left Apple in to become a college professor in Japan. His books are foundational. I've talked about Tufte in my own books and on this website going back to at least this post in I have not seen him speak recently, so I was happy to see this minute presentation by Dr.

Microsoft's David Smith introduced Dr. Tufte at the mark. Video and transcript also available on the Microsoft website. Highlights In his talk, Tufte warns against confirmation bias and massaging the data to arrive at findings that are desirable or somehow in your interest.

He paraphrases one of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous lines: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

To do this he recommends specifying your analysis first before you collect the data. I think this is the future of confirmatory data analysis. We can learn from it. We can run it through powerful exploratory things. We can run it like a map through millennial time and look it over and say, that look interesting To go back on innocent data, maybe somebody miles away does it.

Maybe that's better, independent replication of the search results to distinguish now between noise and signal. Something simple as can be, but it was one of the most important things he said in his talk.

After talking about the need for us to learn about the entire process of data and analysis and to go out in the field and watch directly how original measurements are made, Tufte said this: "In doing creative work do not start your day with addictive time-vampires such as The New York Times, email, and Twitter.

All scatter the eye, and mind, produce diverting vague anxiety, clutter short-term memory. Instead, begin with your work. Many creative workers have independently discovered this principle.

And finally this bit of wisdom concerning data analysis and thinking in general. The most powerful question you can ask yourself, and of others is: "How do I know that? How do you know that? How do they know that? They are beautifully designed and well made. Over the years I have come back to these books often. Of course, the examples are dated, but the principles are the same and the examples hold up well and you can easily apply the concepts to modern problems.

And they are just beautiful, smart books. Posted at PM Permalink Comments 2. There is loads of evidence that reading to children at bedtime is not only good for their emotional well being, it also has long-term benefits for their cognitive development. We have a 6-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy. Since they were babies they have been exposed to books. Bedtime stories are one of the great joys of parenting and is a nightly ritual for us. As it is the Christmas season, I thought I would recommend two books here that do a great job of presenting their material in an engaging, visual way.

There are many editions of this classic tale, but based on the amazing and numerous reviews on Amazon, I purchased Robert Sabuda's The Night Before Christmas Pop-up last year in time for Christmas. The pop-up art is amazing and imaginative. I was not sure at first that I would want a pop-up book for story time, but the great thing about the 3-D aspect of it is that the kids are always touching the paper and playing with the tabs and strings as the story progresses.

They use their imagination to believe now that the story is about them and their house. In the final two-page spread, for example, a snow-covered town pops up with Santa flying over the houses. My son will say something like "here is our house and this is our bed room window.

It's a well-made book, but you need to be a bit careful with it, especially with infants. Still, if you are just a little careful, the pop-ups should keep working long after the kids are grown.

My 4-year-old son pulls tab to have Santa and his reindeer fly above the snow covered village. Neumeir may be talking about branding, but his advice here translates well to other forms of communication as well. We can, more or less, read about what you do and who you are, but why it matters? Why we should care? Empathy in the sense that the presenter understands that not everyone will see what to him is obvious or that others may understand well but not see why it should matter to them.

Good presenters try to put themselves in the shoes of the audience so to speak. By the way, Marty Neumeir has done a pretty cool thing by putting the main narrative of his book into the form of a PowerPoint deck that is especially useful to someone who has already read the book and wants to talk about the ideas with the help of these visuals above.

You can find the three essential questions related to focus on slide 50 of in the Slideshare deck above. Until then you and I can get a feel for his passion and his wisdom from a few short clips on YouTube.

Half way through this clip shown below, go to the mark Zander says something quite remarkable to a group of musicians. He may be talking in the context of musicianship, but his words can be applied to most of our presentation contexts too:.

Which is: We are about contribution. Not every presentation situation is about contribution, perhaps, but most are. Certainly when we are asked to share our expertise with a group who are on the whole not specialists in our field, we have to think very hard about what is important for them and what is not again, for them. Getting back to my wasted hour. Actually, it was a wasted hour for everyone involved. The presenter, who was a smart, accomplished professional, failed before he even started.

The slides looked like they where the same ones used in previous presentations to more technical audiences, an indication that he had not thought first and foremost about his audience on that day.

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