Presentation of the mind– conveying thoughts using digital tools and thier problems.

Communication of information is an ancient art practiced since 34^th century B.C using Cuneiform script, which at that time, as it seems, using pictorial representation was the most efficient way to describe and transfer information.

5400 years later things have changed. We no longer carve our presentations into a wall with a stick or stone but rather use more mobile and efficient utilities such as Microsoft’s Powerpoint.  Though the use of such quick means of describing information has caused us to be lazy with our resources, and so decided to represent out information in the simplest of ways – text.

Though to truly understand the problem we need to understand the objective of the current structure of text on changing slides.  Text is the simplest form to describe complex previous experienced information  using the changing slides  as a presentation of the changing timeline.  

How efficient are we with words?  Could we use a slideshow to describe a Monet?   

Edward Tufte   tackles the problem with complex structures presented in this graph of Napoleon’s March.  Though at first glance the design seems very interesting, what comes immediately  after is utter confusion what is presented is a complex use of multiple variables presented in non commonly fashion, which in turn confuses the viewer and does not inform until the graph is thoroughly explained.   At first seeming a step forward actually presents a step backwards, regarding one of the most fundamental reasons for actually using Powerpoint – simplicity of conveying information.

So to empower our ability to present information in the most efficient and rich way, a system must be devised which uses simple commonly understandable structures which can be taken apart and reused as simple representatives;  a program which is similar to power point though has the ability of knowing what is the objective of the presentation and forming simple pictorial representatives which describe the objective In the most efficient and conceptually rich manner.

A simple tool that does so with regard to statistical information is presented here and here.