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"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

'It's a chart of office morale. This is where you went on vacation.'

"You're losing the audience. Switch to the Powerpoint presentation."

Project Length As Measured In Dog Years

Can't Do the Math/Won't Do the Math.

"Now that I have everyone's attention..."

"The trend in tough economic times is to put off everything that doesn't require immediate action ? as this chart shows."

'Now THAT'S a presentation! Great delivery, great graphics, and he moonwalks from the room.'

"Eventually, you have to stop visualizing yourself doing well on the test, and actually do the test."

If nobody had invented graphics

"A dozen eggs and a pint of semi-skimmed...Sorry, looks like I left my presentation in my other coat."

"Fantastic presentation! All of the investors loved it."

The number one injury in today's workplace: severe bends caused by repeated exposure to deep-dive presentations.

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

ACME Balloon Company.

"We've done a rigorous examination of your business plan using the latest algorithms to model future profits. . . which way up would you like it?"

Let's Celebrate

"Now this chart should clear up any confusion you have with the report."

He then drew a number of smaller pie charts behind the bigger chart. That helped to put it into perspective.

Sales chart plummets into employees head.

"At least we are consistently inconsistent."

'Now this is my kind of green!'

"Thank you, Harris - I get the picture."

But under a different accounting convention ...

'And right here they merged...'

Real data visualization specialists are 100% committed to their profession.

'I understand this was the day you seized, Ferguson?'

Sales Chart Through Ceiling

'And this is after the creation of a Special Effects Department.'

'Now let's proceed downstairs and see where our stock shares presently sits,'

"It seems to be right about this point that our company started going into free fall."

"While you make the sales presentation, Monica. I'll scope out the room and try to identify this company's Achilles heel!"