{"id":4814,"date":"2010-06-29T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/29\/bad-and-good-presentation-grap\/"},"modified":"2010-06-29T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:24:45","slug":"bad-and-good-presentation-grap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/29\/bad-and-good-presentation-grap\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad and Good Presentation Graphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a short introduction to how to give a presentation today to the students who will be presenting their research in our twice-weekly Summer Student Seminar Series. This included examples of a data slide that is bad in the ways that students&#8217; first attempts at data slides tend to be bad, and the same graph re-done in a more appropriate manner. As long as I&#8217;m doing format conversions of this anyway, I figure it might be amusing to post them here. So, here&#8217;s the bad graph, with the bullet points highlighting the mistakes:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-ce1358dbaf38baa4a3badfa15d0695df-BadData.png\" alt=\"i-ce1358dbaf38baa4a3badfa15d0695df-BadData.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the good version:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-f45f7ca0def863213c9be4121ba20c32-GoodData.png\" alt=\"i-f45f7ca0def863213c9be4121ba20c32-GoodData.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The seminar series features three talks per session, at twenty minutes per talk (15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions), usually with a short break between speakers when students can re-load on food and drink.)<\/p>\n<p>Edward Tufte, I&#8217;m not, but I think these help to make the important points. Of course, I&#8217;m probably forgetting lots of things that really ought to be mentioned regarding presentation slides. Feel free to remind me of them in comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a short introduction to how to give a presentation today to the students who will be presenting their research in our twice-weekly Summer Student Seminar Series. This included examples of a data slide that is bad in the ways that students&#8217; first attempts at data slides tend to be bad, and the same&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/29\/bad-and-good-presentation-grap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad and Good Presentation Graphs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,13,7,147,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data_presentation","category-education","category-physics","category-playing-with-graphs","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}