As many blog readers may remember, I enjoy reading a daily publication issued by the Harvard Business Review called The Daily Alert that usually contains three short articles on management topics. I ...

“I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” is a classic U2 song. It’s also how I feel about presentations. It’s rare that I find a public speaker who delivers a slide-show that’s informative, ...

Many leaders and entrepreneurs who took a presentation skills class I recently led at Harvard were looking for tactics to improve how they communicate data. There’s a trick to presenting numbers in an ...

Numbers don't lie, but a bad chart decision makes it extremely difficult to understand what those numbers mean. Before you put together another PowerPoint presentation, make sure your pick the right ...

Flow cytometry is a widely-used laser-based technique that can be used to measure and quantify cell size, cell granularity, cellular markers, and intracellular components such as proteins and ...

It happens regularly. A client or friend will complain that their presentations are dreadful, tedious, painful. In fact, a friend of mine called yesterday and told me her (rather frequent) ...

We're living in the era of Big Data. We know more about ourselves—our spending patterns, our TV-watching habits, our Web searches, our education levels—than ever before. For marketers, all that ...

Communicating data can feel like an overwhelming task. As journalists, how can we translate extensive numbers-based research and analysis into coherent, comprehensible reporting? Data journalists have ...