Data Visualization for Slide Presentations - Storytelling, Charts, Formatting

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Another excellent video. I work in the Big 4 in a Management Consulting role and agree with all your points. I'd add a few more. The first is to always consider your audience; a presentation to a Logistics Manager, Finance Business Partner, Clinician, or Executive will all look different and will have to use different degrees of simplicity to communicate sometimes complex messages. The second depends on the deliverable; is it a 'talking aid' or a formal report. Typically the types of charts and style I will use will fluctuate significantly depending on how I would be delivering the product as sometimes you need to be able to 'talk to the chart' as opposed to simply 'presenting the chart and letting it speak for itself'. Finally, in my role (Senior Manager/Engagement Lead) I'm often once removed from the analysis that sits behind a report yet still responsible for presenting the findings. I very frequently find myself obsessing over formatting and whether you can tell what a slide is trying to communicate within five seconds of looking at it (signposting, as Partners sometimes refer to it as). I often challenge Consultants and Analysts to reflect on that before they give me decks to review; as five seconds can be infintely longer than the attention span of an Exec in their 20th MS Teams meeting of the day. Keep up the good work though, Heinrich!

data visualization = formatting. 0:20 arguably the most important part and also the most challenging part of slide writing. 0:35 creating charts and diagrams is 1. look professional 2. to the point way. 2:50 connector lines here don't add any value. 4:30 Data-Ink ratio: show as much data as possible with as less ink as possible: delete filler lines, helper lines, background lines, axis, and so on. 4:55 choose the right chart type: complicated as it might look. 5:30 basic rule of thumb: when you have more than 5 elements then pie chart is too difficult to work with. 6:15 thus, the bar chart may be a better option to show. 7:40 which chart type to communicate that, these two elements are correlated but not the others. 8:00 bubble charts: good at when there are 3 number dimensions into one chart. 11:15 data-entry window 11:30 you can also stacked waterfall segments. 13:00 profitability surface chart. some pre-comfigured charts don't make sense and even provide insights. 13:35 key thumbs of rule: one message one page.

This guy got paid 6 figures to make slideshows for 6 years so trust him yall

Hey Heinrich! I cannot express what a gem this channel has been for me over the past week. I am currently participating in a BCG Case Competition at my university and your videos have been immensely helpful on this journey. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

Great video as always Heinrich! I would be interested in a video where you would show us some personal slide archetypes you use to save time when building slides. I believe when it comes to a time crunch, being able to reuse some personal favourite slides will save an immense amount of stress. Looking forward to it!

One of the finest videos on slide presentations. Appreciate the effort you put in teaching us such wonderful skills.

Fabulous - a single ThinkCell license, this is amazing thanks Heinrich!

This literally could not have been released at a better time for me. Thank you.

Vielen Dank Heinrich für solche sehr Wertvolle info Du gegeben hast. Grüss aus Izmir / Türkiye

Fantastic video, can’t wait to try out think cell! I’ve often found how quickly #s can change. Instead of Oct-21 YTD, we want to pipe in November numbers last minute before the CFO presents to investors. Having the data in a way that is as flexible as possible to pipe in data (ideally automatically via Microsoft odbc connections and SQL wizardry) that allows charts to auto refresh can make your life much easier.

I loved this! Super practical and realistic, I learned this kind of stuff last year in school but this video helped a lot to recall and point things out for myself :)

I used your tips from the How to create storylines for business presentations video in my work and got really good feedback thanks Heinrich!

3 hrs lecture vs 15 min Heinrich video. and the winner is Heinrich :)

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Thanks for your another great video Heinrich!

Excellent video, you dont need to put ex-this, ex-that or ex-gf, your name is already known and is a brand by itself. Great work.

Another video- diamond, thank you Heinrich :)

Great video and insights. Might look trivial to some seasoned professionals, but once you get these basics right, your entire (visual) communication will be on another level. An so are your results. And great tool, btw! Every upcoming business professional should get their hands on it asap and learn how to create great slides! Keep up the great work, Heinrich :)