Pacman on demand

The above image was generated by Google’s Chart API. Just take the below URL and mess around with the values to produce any chart of your choosing. This is great way to generate a quick and easy graph/chart.

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:85,15&chs=500×200&chl=pac|man

cht=p3 is the chart type
t:85,15 are the values
chs=500×200 is the dimensions of the image
chl=pac|man are the chart’s values

Of course you can change the colours, as well as the type to a bar, line, scatter or even a Venn diagram. Nice. (via IA)

December 7, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Pecha-Kucha

Dan Pink in Wired this month has a nice little piece on Pecha-Kucha, a movement that’s half art, half efficiency in which presenters can only use 20 slides at 20 seconds a piece. As Dan appropriately puts it, “Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down”. This is a response to the innumerable amount of dull, drab, and torturous PowerPoint presentations (likely set in the default template) any cubicle-dweller has likely had to endure.

This whole thing is similar to Guy Kawasaki’s 10/20/30 rule in making a sales pitch — 10 slides, 20 seconds each, with 30-point font. If 30 is too big for your liking, Kawasaki suggests “find out the age of the oldest person in your audience and divide it by two. That’s your optimal font size.” Above, Dan put together an example of Pecha-Kucha, where he goes into the emotional intelligence of signs, and how they can connect with people to get their message across effectively.