by Denis Francois Gravel | Aug 7, 2009 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
Presenting Data can be boring for the audience. I often see speakers shows rows and rows of plain number. Zzzzzz! I can hardly stay concentrated on the presentation. To help our audience stay focus and understand the data and we better use data visualization. I...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Jul 16, 2009 | Language : English, Varia
Quebec City Summer Festival gave me 15 seconds of fame* this week. The summer festival innovates this year by using a 2.0 strategy. They use Twitter to keep in touch with the festivalgoers. You can follow them here: @InfoFestiBell They tweet about upcoming events of...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Jul 2, 2009 | Language : English, Varia
Two month ago. Between 9 and 10 in the morning, a big explosion surprise me while I was working at my home office. It was certainly huge because it was far, and still, the vibrations shake my house. What happened? I didn’t know. I was curious and search the Internet,...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Jun 14, 2009 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
If you use PowerPoint or Keynotes or another software while you are presenting, you can choose between different styles of design. Assertion-evidence slide Classic PresentationZen Lessig Method Duarte Design Diagrams Ethos3 story-telling style Comic style Pecha Kucha...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Jun 11, 2009 | Language : English, Slides, Speaking Tips
Presenting data is more efficient with visual aids. Pie charts and bar graph are used everyday in presentations, meetings or reports. We are used to them…..and sometimes bored by them. They often looked all the same. This is a regular pie chart. The kind we sees...
by Denis Francois Gravel | Apr 28, 2009 | Language : English, Speaking Tips
The world is different from what we see. Everybody sees it through glasses. Glasses representing education, professions, values, etc. As a result, everybody perceives things differently. I had a teacher who defined her role this way: “I’m giving you new glasses to see...
