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Are Your PowerPoint Slides Ready for the Color Blind?

People who are color blind will have problems interpreting visuals that are highly dependent on color. The most common type of color...

How Three Groups Communicate Their Roles Through One Guiding Graphic

Resilience – the ability of communities, economies, and ecosystems within South Carolina to anticipate, absorb, recover, and thrive when...

Possibly the Worst PowerPoint Slide I Have Ever Seen

Well, maybe not the absolute worst because I have seen some bad ones. But this one is in the Top 10. Good Intentions This slide was part...

The Top 5 Sites For Evaluating (and Communicating) Hurricane Risks

Understanding your risks relative to an uncertain future usually involves some type of model. When it comes to uncertainty, forecasts,...

Media Manipulation: How The Broken Vertical Axis Ruins Your Credibility

The video graphic in a local news story raced by so quickly that I nearly missed the manipulation—the bar in the graphic animated...

Have You Ever Been Lost? Guiding Graphics Help Navigate Complexity and Uncertainty

Making decisions in situations with high levels of complexity and uncertainty is iterative. The decision maker must understand the...

FINESSE: Take Lessons from Google When Communicating with Maps

Getting a Sick Dog to the Vet I heard one of the beagles yelp. Josie came running to the house with a limp. She was wobbling five minutes...

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