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PowerPoint creators: Tufte is right, but...
“All the things Tufte says are absolutely true. People often make very bad use of PowerPoint.” Mr. Gaskins [one of the creators of PowerPoint; see below] reminds his questioner that a Powe… more →
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I can't tell you what "insight" looks like, but I'll know it when I see it
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dgbakken wrote 1 month ago: Around the early ’90s, a new job title began to appear in many of the companies I consulted wi … more →
We're off to see the wizard...
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Joseph Lewis wrote 3 months ago: Actually, he’s more of a guru, and not a real guru, but a graphic designer who has somehow mag … more →
Visual Display of Information
bobbyjones wrote 3 months ago: I’m a big fan of Edward Tufte’s. Thanks to previous employers, I have attended two of h … more →
Death by PowerPoint
geofcase wrote 3 months ago: There are few instances where PowerPoint can mean the difference between life and death but the dest … more →
Tufte, Data Analysis for Politics and Policy
Matt Dull wrote 3 months ago: Before he cornered the market on the visual display of quantitative information (a decade ago, Time … more →
The superior power of approximation
Jim Meredith wrote 3 months ago: I’ve been interested, tangentially, for a while with the rapidly developing discipline of data visu … more →
Statistics and Politics
enugroho wrote 4 months ago: Today is all about statistics. As I wrote in my other post, I like politics, but in the same time I … more →
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Inspirations: Edward Tufte
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alphaauer wrote 4 months ago: I think we, the instructors and assistants of CS450, should post material which we find to be inspir … more →
#10: Shorter Decks. Higher Fidelity Slides.
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bonforte wrote 5 months ago: We often hear, fewer slides is better. In my list of 20 tips, I have it as tip #10, suggesting that … more →
Tufte and the Super Graphic
Liz wrote 5 months ago: On monday I was lucky enough to attend Edward Tufte’s seminar “Presenting Data and Infor … more →
Trivia and significa as crystal goblet
emilycampbell wrote 5 months ago: 21 November 2008: Ben Schott gave us his summary of 2008 at yesterday’s RSA Thursday. The story was … more →
Newscast chartjunk: a totally unscientific analysis
mackereleconomics wrote 6 months ago: “When a graphic is taken over by decorative forms or computer debris, when the data measures a … more →
Music and Design
kgtalbott wrote 6 months ago: Color Logic is similar to that for emphasis in music: “Without accent there is no life. The b … more →
Edward Tufte
stellasuru wrote 7 months ago: Edward Tufte, Professor Emeritus at Yale University, proves that over-thinking has its benefits. He … more →
Challenged Ballots
di wrote 7 months ago: Edward Tufte once said, pertaining to the voting ballot, “The user is never wrong, and the us … more →
PowerPoint Makes You Dumb?
azoptimist wrote 7 months ago: I never thought of it that way. PowerPoint is the only software I’ve used for presentations. Just ch … more →
The work of Edward Tufte
petermsalmon wrote 7 months ago: Edward Tufte has written a number of excellent, indeed beautiful books, on presentation, graphs and … more →
Silly Microsoft Internal Video
adamsmith1922 wrote 1 year ago: Whilst browsing Prof. Tufte’s website Adam came across this item: A few years from now, Vista … more →
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