I have often wondered whether the tradi­tional method of providing audited financial state­ments to clients is really serving them as well as we could be. We print them up on nice thick paper with the firm’s letterhead and spiral bound the package with a tasteful, under­stated title page, followed by our solemn audit report. Is […]

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I’m a huge fan of visual­izing things. Things like data. Data is fun, sure, but not as fun as a data visual­ization. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and pretty pictures have gotta be worth at least 1,001. What’s helping me visualize data these days? Mind maps. That’s because there are two really cool web apps that […]

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Dan Meyer’s blog, Tick Marks, has directed me to an inter­esting section of The Focal Point’s website, highlighting the work it did in helping the prose­cution of the fraud case of the former head of Waste Management, James Koenig. The Focal Point is a company that makes “all forms of courtroom presen­ta­tions more persuasive by […]

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