How Do You Control Your Presentation Time?

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"There has to be huge inefficiencies that we haven't quite figured out yet," he says. "I write about efficiency. It's in the title." Show up early, finish early and chat people up, get them to start reading,. And finish early. The other thing is a good six page or can pretty well do it. They can read twice as fast, at least as you can talk. I have thought times of, hey, read this and just say a little bit".

So you have some information — how are you going to share it with and present it to the rest of the world? There has been a long history of organizing and displaying information without putting too much thought into it, but Edward Tufte has done an enormous amount to change that. Beginning with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and continuing to his new book Seeing With Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth, Tufte’s works have shaped how we think about charts, graphs, and other forms of presenting data. We talk about information, design, and how thinking about data reflects how we think about the world.

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Edward Tufte received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. He has been a professor of public affairs at Princeton and of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale, where he is currently emeritus professor. He is the founder and owner of Graphics Press, and his books have sold nearly 2 million copies worldwide. He is an active artist and sculptor, as well as a touring lecturer.

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