by John Polk | Mar 25, 2020 | Presentation Design
Information = Data + Bias. This formula is another mathematical nugget of data visualization wisdom from my professor, Dr. Harold Kurstedt. You met Dr. Kurstedt in my Platinum Rule post. This formula came back to me when I was stress-watching cable news about the...
by John Polk | Oct 8, 2018 | Presentation Design
I hated electrical theory – it was the hardest-earned B- of my college career. But one concept stuck with me, the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). It’s a simple concept, which might explain why it’s the only thing I remember from that course. If you’re listening to a...
by John Polk | Aug 30, 2018 | Presentation Design, Presentation Templates
I took the train from Richmond to New York twice last summer. It’s doesn’t take much longer than flying, it’s a lot less hassle, and you can get more work done. But there’s one thing that drives me crazy. When you get to Washington, DC, you wait in the dark with no...
by John Polk | May 24, 2018 | Presentation Design
About 15 years ago, I worked in a department where my skip-level boss held a quarterly business review (QBR). In these QBRs, my peers and I presented our accomplishments for the last quarter and our plans for the next quarter. One quarter, one of my peers, “Mike”...
by John Polk | May 11, 2018 | Presentation Design
The single most important thing you can do to improve your presentations is to use sentence titles that give the main point of each slide. Sentence Titles vs. Category Headers Let’s start with some definitions. Title: The words you put at the top of your slide....
by John Polk | Apr 10, 2018 | Presentation Design
While my wife, the Chemical Engineer, insists I’m not a real engineer, my Virginia Tech diplomas do have the words “Industrial Engineering” on them. And while I haven’t had the word “engineer” in my job title for the last 20 years, I still see the world through...
