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Data Storytelling Splashes

Put the joy into spreadsheets. I’m into data but most people are number blind so I try to tell stories that paint a picture rather than focus on the numbers. I have my own phrases, so for example when I say “a Nessie” my team knows I mean a

Putrid Putin's Pareto Pyramid Piechart

✍️ 'Russian election result...' My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y pic.twitter.com/hSFQCzRfY7 — Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) March 14, 2024 Another stolen election is currently underway in the world. Today, its the

When Will AI Make Our Salesdecks For Us?

Spoiler alert: not now, not so soon, maybe never? The latest ᴀɪ marvel is the breakthrough with super-ʜᴅ animated/ᴄɢɪ yet real looking video production. The initial clips are quite the thing to behold. So the world of ᴀɪ continues to move at pace. I've come across such products specifically

Poetry vs Prose

With so much of the Free World going to the polls this year, I was reminded of the old electioneering adage; campaign in poetry, govern in prose. This in part builds on the power of emotion. And the pitfall of how the solution seller can misplace importance instead on facts,

90secs Per Tale

From a real world Sales Kick-Off this very week. It may not surprise you to learn that the running items for this event were only confirmed a working week ahead of time. I can't say I approve of that level of foresight. Even less so, given the nationwide downed tools

Alpha Papa Boardroom Flipchart Skills

Aha! Alan Partridge hosting a siege became the radio DJ's first big screen outing in 2013. About fifteen minutes in, there's a scene we can call Boardroom. Our hero Alan bursts in to the management meeting of the new owners of his radio station. As seen up-top. Having told his

🧯🧯🧯

The fire extinguisher emoji seems having its moment in the spotlight. As with all social media storms, there's a chance a divisive undercurrent lurks deep in there somewhere, but let's take this at face value for now. Its existence appears to portray the wish to dismiss the post of another.

Snowbound Escape

The above panel is from the London broadsheet The Times' 'peek behind the scenes'; "This is how Heathrow will ensure your flight takes off this winter". The drift of context being that London's pretty much outmoded two-runway laggard - as per country in general - is oft derided for collapsing

Amplify Elon

Amplify Empathy — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2023 I referenced this myself a couple of days after. I scrolled a little down the replies and true to form, tweeters swapped in their alternative for Empathy. Here's the sample, before things got a bit silly. Amplify ____; Freedom of speech Small verified

Bletchley Inspired Brand

I suspect the AI Safety Summit caught your feeds last week. UK Prime Minister Sunak invited the great and the good and the China for a bout of regulation porn. That's not to say I dismiss the chance 'bad actors' soon subjugate those of us out the loop. It's more