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JD Solomon
Nov 42 min read
Include People in Your Visuals
Human-centered images help to bridge the gap between complex information and real-world applications.
Lester Ray Moore
Oct 31, 20233 min read
5 Visuals to Use with Caution When Communicating to Senior Management
Scatter diagrams, matrices, histograms, pie charts, and box and whiskers diagrams are included in "graphics to use with caution" when...
JD Solomon
Jul 19, 20233 min read
Beware of Deception When Using Shapes for Data Visualization
Fortune gets it right! In its annual publication of Fortune 500 companies, Fortune correctly used two-dimensional shapes (circles) to...
JD Solomon
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Why It Doesn't Matter If Color Blindness is a Deficiency or an Impairment
Color blindness should be addressed in your communication and facilitation approach, whether you believe it to be a deficiency, an...
JD Solomon
Oct 23, 20221 min read
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...
JD Solomon
Oct 13, 20222 min read
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...
JD Solomon
Oct 6, 20223 min read
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...
JD Solomon
Aug 27, 20222 min read
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...
JD Solomon
Apr 26, 20222 min read
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...
JD Solomon
Apr 19, 20223 min read
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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