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I'm not sure if all the slides in this are supposed to be examples of what to do but some issues: 1. Tiny text. If your audience can't read it - don't include
by IanCal 9y ago
I'm not sure if all the slides in this are supposed to be examples of what to do but some issues:
1. Tiny text. If your audience can't read it - don't include it. This seems to be everywhere. My most hated phrase in a talk is "you can't see this but". See here: https://imgur.com/a/1B8j6 https://imgur.com/a/1B8j6 I can barely read this close up on a high quality screen. Are your audience really going to be able to read https://imgur.com/a/2YtMF https://imgur.com/a/2YtMF on a projector?
I always feel if I'm at a talk and someone shows me something I'm not supposed to be able to see that they don't care enough about the talk.
2. Colourblindness.
There's a colouring on clustering: https://imgur.com/a/d0P6T https://imgur.com/a/d0P6T
And here it is if you're red/green colourblind: https://imgur.com/a/1g8vc https://imgur.com/a/1g8vc
An easy way to work with this is see if your slides work when black and white.
3. Tables https://imgur.com/a/KLNtQ https://imgur.com/a/KLNtQ
Are you really trying to get across 40 pieces of information? If not, why have so much stuff here? Even if so, please don't centre all your columns!
- jamessb 9y agoThe coloring isn't intended to convey meaning, but simply to subdivide that dendrogram: the viewer doesn't need to recognise the colors or match them to a scale, just see that they're different, and the colors used are distinguishable even when converted to black and white so they satisfy this requirement. This colored shading is arguably more attractive than simply using a range of grays.