Comments on: Video of my Ignite talk http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/ Knowledge Visualization, Information Graphics, and Information Design Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:50:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Noah http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-926 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:39:54 +0000 http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-926 Hi Ken, You are correct, this is a sub-optimal medium to learn from. There are two main reasons for this. 1- The video is a by product of the in-person presentation. The presentation was optimized for the live audience. The video is a secondary (at best) consideration, and the volunteer videographer is left to their own devices to capture it as best they can. 2- The format of the presentation itself is not conducive to this level of information density. This is a 45 minute lecture crammed into 5 minutes. The goal of the format is to give the audience a taste of the content, and if they are inspired they may follow up in any number of ways. Hence the original name of "ask later" talks. Some topics are well suited to the 5 minute format (see some of the other videos posted by the same user). This is note one of them. If you are interested in the details, I invite you to read my <a href="http://complexdiagrams.com/2007/10/12/generation-of-complex-diagrams-how-to-make-spaghetti-instead-of-lasagne/" target=_blank rel="nofollow">thesis</a> and send feedback. I'm always curious to hear what people think. Best, Noah Hi Ken,

You are correct, this is a sub-optimal medium to learn from. There are two main reasons for this.

1- The video is a by product of the in-person presentation. The presentation was optimized for the live audience. The video is a secondary (at best) consideration, and the volunteer videographer is left to their own devices to capture it as best they can.

2- The format of the presentation itself is not conducive to this level of information density. This is a 45 minute lecture crammed into 5 minutes. The goal of the format is to give the audience a taste of the content, and if they are inspired they may follow up in any number of ways. Hence the original name of “ask later” talks. Some topics are well suited to the 5 minute format (see some of the other videos posted by the same user). This is note one of them.

If you are interested in the details, I invite you to read my thesis and send feedback. I’m always curious to hear what people think.

Best, Noah

]]> by: Ken Williams http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-924 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0000 http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-924 This video is a pretty good example of how NOT to do it; make the slides so blurry we can't even read the biggest text, put the speaker in the video for no reason when a voice track would do fine, cut off half of the speaker's body AND the slides for the whole second half. If there were good points here, I'm afraid I can't detect them with this format. All I'm getting is "I know how to make good diagrams" over and over. This video is a pretty good example of how NOT to do it; make the slides so blurry we can’t even read the biggest text, put the speaker in the video for no reason when a voice track would do fine, cut off half of the speaker’s body AND the slides for the whole second half.

If there were good points here, I’m afraid I can’t detect them with this format. All I’m getting is “I know how to make good diagrams” over and over.

]]> by: linda http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-768 Tue, 06 May 2008 22:06:34 +0000 http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-768 Great presentation in a nutshell. I've seem some spaghetti-like diagrams (the where's waldo style) designed by usability professionals. There are more lasagna way of doing it. Great presentation in a nutshell. I’ve seem some spaghetti-like diagrams (the where’s waldo style) designed by usability professionals. There are more lasagna way of doing it.

]]> by: lynn http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-765 Mon, 05 May 2008 03:03:38 +0000 http://complexdiagrams.com/2008/04/29/video-of-my-ignite-talk/#comment-765 This was a brilliant! Didn't know so much information could be presented so "efficiently" - &#38; quickly! :&#62; Lynn This was a brilliant! Didn’t know so much information could be presented so “efficiently” - & quickly! :> Lynn

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