Or is the availability of technology in fact the problem? Is it that we laymen have the tools to created our own graphics and we just never can do as well as Minard?

When I was first in business, if we wanted to created a graph for an executive presentation, we had to call the design department and professionally trained designers would listen to what we wanted to present and then they'd come up with the graphic. Today, we just do the graphic ourself. Maybe Minard would have had some competition if we left design to the designers.

(Side benefit: I met my wife her first day on the job in the design department at my company!)

Des

A note about the SLaM Lab, the focus on graphical presentation I think was priceless, no other course delves this topic specially in the context of a real strategy consulting project. We all suffer on a daily basis from the lack of having data presented in a meaningful way..