There are so many amazing free tools available now for enhancing presentations. While researching for this week's blog I came across many exciting tools. One tool in particular that I found encompassed many tools into one beta site. It is currently free because it is an IBM prototype called Many Eyes. This is a site that allows you to upload your data and create a visual image of your choice. You can test out many different options to see which fits your information the best. It provides many options from word clouds, to graphs, pie charts and more. This site is so simple to use. The only issue I ran into was trying to get the image to dislay directly here.
I used some generic data about marathons to create this image:
http://www-958.ibm.com/me/visualizations/48af9a48942f11e29827000255111976
There were many choices for creating images and the examples they displayed were great additions to presentation and getting information to people in a more exciting way. I have never considered myself visual or artistic and yet I now realize that I am capable creating amazing graphics and designs by being a little creative. This is an exciting field that will make presentations interesting and engaging. It is amazing to see how fast technology is changing the things we do.
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