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Originally Posted by nostatic
We have that slide printed and hanging on the walls at work as a "how not to" example. Military decks are notoriously dense and almost always useless. Has nothing to do with Powerpoint and everything to do with reporting structures, visual literacy, and cya.
People often confuse/conflate data visualization and presentation. They are not the same thing.
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Fair enough. The focus should not be PowerPoint per se, but how it is used. What bugs me, though, is the attitude in some business circles that if you don't use it, you are somehow not communicating and being lazy.
Some really great work on using graphics effectively in presentations has been done by Edward Tufte. I highly recommend his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. His argument on how poor graphics contributed to the Challenger space shuttle disaster is really fascinating.