Powerpoint's 'convert text into SmartArt' functionality, Excel's charts, graphs and pivot tables all encourage you to oversimplify the world, work, ideas, concepts, processes and experiences in a way that patronises and bores your audience.
Doogie Horner shows how infographics can be complex and intelligent – as well as funny – in his book Everything Explained Through Flowcharts which is published in October 2010.
After reading a few of his charts you can see that if you allow people to connect the dots themselves, they'll be much happier with your presentation.
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