The 30 second video below shows different font sizes on a PowerPoint slide exported as a 1280 x 720 video. Watch it on your mobile device to see what different font sizes will look like to your audience using a smaller screen.
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Math Worksheet Generator
All of a sudden, children are out of school and classes have moved to an online format. This is likely unfamiliar territory for kids and their parents. Instead of practice worksheets that would be handed out in class, parents have to figure out how to support their child’s learning at home. When our kids were…
Scaling values for related data series; Issue #458 February 18 2020
It is not uncommon that to communicate a message you need to show two or three related data series. It is relatively easy to create a single graph that has all the data series shown. The challenge comes when you have values in the data series that are different by an order of magnitude or…
Test slides when using video wall; Issue #457 February 4 2020
As more conference rooms move from using projectors to using monitors to display presentations, an issue is coming up in larger rooms. While a single large monitor will work in a small to medium sized room, it is too small for a medium to large sized room. To create a larger display, organizations install a…
IMA ACE2020 Conference (June 23, 2020, Atlanta, GA)
At the International Management Accountants ACE2020 Conference I will be delivering a half-day workshop titled FinancialViz: Visually communicate financial results and analysis using advanced Excel dataviz techniques. Details are available and registration is open here.
CPA Ontario Corporate Finance and Controllers Summit March 27, 2020 (Mississauga, ON)
Concurrent session titled Best Practices when using BI tools for Analysis & Reporting. Register here.
What annoys you about PowerPoint presentations? 2015 survey now open
Every two years I survey audience members on what annoys them about PowerPoint presentations. I have now opened the 2015 survey here. There are the same questions as in previous surveys so we can compare the results and see trends. And there are two new questions this year. First, I am asking you to tell…
Why you won’t find my books on the Indigo/Chapters website
As a Canadian author and publisher, I sometimes get questions as to why prospective purchasers of my books can’t find them on the Indigo/Chapters website. I point people to Amazon.ca, who do carry all of my books, and here’s why: Indigo makes it too difficult to list my books. Amazon takes an electronic feed from…
SEV Resources
Thanks for investing in the book Select Effective Visuals! On this page you will find additional resources to help you use the ideas in the book. Most of the resources are links to other content that you can choose to explore. There are links to videos, other example visuals, articles, calculators, and more. If you…
Dave video demos
Scroll down the list of videos and click on a video to watch Dave present. [sc:demo_video_sway]