Quote by David Sumpter

“Never again will you simply show data. Rather, you will create visualizations that are thoughtfully designed to impart information and incite action.”

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

— W. A. H. Rushton

The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew…

— Erik Naggum

Yes, good presentation is a vehicle for enhancing people and policies. But if the presentation fails, we have to look beyond the wrapping and…

— Amber Rudd

“graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.”

— Alberto Cairo

“The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their…

— John Medina

“When you try to label anything, you are limiting possibilities. We need to think more about perceiving things in the big picture instead of…

— Kathy L. Patrick

I think everyone is struggling somewhat with presentation. The Internet is generally well designed, if you look at the most popular websites, so we…

— David Mccandless

The art is in preparing the content for optimal human consumption. The data doesn't just talk back to you. You collect, you analyze, you…

— Leslie Bradshaw

“I have a disdain,” he says, “for complicated fancy equipment because it takes a lot of time to learn how to use, and I’m…

— Norman Doidge

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or…

— Anatol Rapoport

“The picturing of data allows us to be sensitive not only to the multiple hypotheses that we hold, but to the many more we…

— Tukey 1974