Criticism

  • Review: Jon Schwabish, Better Presentations

    Review: Jon Schwabish, Better Presentations

    Presentations can be dreadful. Badly thought-out slides, boring structure, poorly delivered. I once told a colleague after a practice talk to please shoot me before she’d ever make me sit through such a talk again (to be fair, she had called the talk boring herself before she even began).


  • Review: Manuel Lima, The Book of Trees

    Review: Manuel Lima, The Book of Trees

    Trees. They’re everywhere. And not just in the physical world, but in data visualization and knowledge representation as well. This is not a new phenomenon, it goes back thousands of years. Manuel Lima’s new book, The Book of Trees, gives an overview.


  • Review: Isabel Meirelles, Design for Information

    Review: Isabel Meirelles, Design for Information

    When I’m asked for a good book about visualization, I usually try to change the subject. There is no book I really love, they all have their issues. But thanks to Isabel Meirelles, I can now give a straight answer: Design for Information.