If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
Above all else show the data.
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.
What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be boiled down and simplified? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separat...