Business Communication Today, 14th Ed.
Chapter 9. Visual Media
"So we’re taking a stand here," begins Terry Heick, director at TeachThought.
"If you or your CEO has been called upon by a TV news reporter to comment on a mass layoff, product recall or other urgent news situation, you know the feeling that this old Wide World of Sports adage can evoke: 'The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat,'" writes Gwen Chynoweth (photo, left).
"Like many designers," writes NYTimes staff writer Quentin Hardy, "Eric Rodenbeck (photo, left) has had a long relationship with bar graphs and pie charts.
Effective communication is everyone’s job—whether you are trying to sell in a concept or convince a client.
The amazing world of Coca-Cola via an infographic.
The Money Chart from Randall Munroe’s webcomic xkcd.
Data visualization is a method of presenting information in a graphical form.
David McCandless makes infographics -- simple, elegant ways to see information that might be too complex or too big, small, abstract or scattered to otherwise be grasped.
Infographics are a popular way to illustrate information, especially for print publications.
When we get graphs as graphics from other sources, we think there is nothing we can do with them.