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News photos for bargain prices
The cobbler walks barefoot
The cobbler walks barefoot
Speaking in Barcelona
Barcelona startup community. Thank you John and Mel Kots for this nice and hazy picture of Gaudi’s master piece that is still under construction. presentation in Barcelona. It would be great to shake hands with readers in Spain. The event is scheduled Speaking in Barcelona business school, or another central Barcelona location. The presentation will be in English, and is free
Slides from Barcelona
meaning, sorry. (I am working on documenting its content though, watch this space) Thank you Barcelona entrepreneurs for a great event! Slides from Barcelona Following requests, I uploaded the slides I used for my talk in Barcelona about investor
Sort your bars
Sometimes bar charts have a clear order, a ranking of items. In other cases it is less obvious Sort your bars
Good old bars...
together than straight bars, see below. This is also the reason that I prefer to use stacked columns over pie charts. Good old bars...
A nice use of stacked bars
This chart taken from the Economist shows a nice use of stacked bar charts: 3 variables in one A nice use of stacked bars
Table or bar chart?
Table or bar chart? , even if that meant a chart with just one column, or one chart. A nice clean bar/column chart works Back in the good old days at McKinsey, we tend to put any range of data in a column or bar chart
Creative with bar labels
chart area makes it harder to relate the bar to the axis (I also prefer to put data labels in the placed over the bars themselves to save space: there is now more room for the bars themselves. Other labels to the right of the bars. I am not a fan: The white over red of the top labels is hard to read Below a screenshot from an Economist instagram post: The labels of the first 2 bars have been Creative with bar labels chart rather than having a very imprecise value axis) Here is a quick illustration of a bar chart in
Bar versus column charts
more natural format than stacked bars. Bars to rank things. The shape mimics a “top 10” top to Bar versus column charts bottom list, and you can make more space for labels that usually describe things In this case: bars are better than columns. Photo by Sophie on Unsplash
The bar is rising
The bar is rising similar to yours Your audience has become better at digesting information from multiple channels, devices, quickly The bar is rising.
The bar is rising
The bar is rising
Bar versus column chart
Bar versus column chart The chart below could have been made a lot better using a bar chart. You can avoid the many legend
Bar chart formatting
Bar chart formatting
Turning a bar chart into a Gantt diagram
Turning a bar chart into a Gantt diagram Gantt chart templates, but the stacked bar chart can provide a solution. See the chart below as an From bar chart to Gantt. Read in this blog post how you can turn a stacked bar chart into a Gantt diagram. stacked bar chart to create project flow charts in PowerPoint. First, you need to look at the content the length of the bars and/or add and subtract activities without having to go through the hassle of
Leonard Cohen building up audience participation
performance in the same tour. The presentation lesson. Many communication philosophies such as Barbera
A deck for a 5 hr meeting?
organisation if people usually do not do their pre-meeting homework. Kicking off my talk in Barcelona last night After my presentation in Barcelona last night, one of the audience members came up to me and asked
Too much colour (2)
concept of the narrow coloured bar replacing a fully coloured slide object.
Sugary drinks
This photo posted by Carolyn McDowell is much more powerful than a bar charts with the sugar content of soft drinks
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