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Saturday, December 17, 2005
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Impress (the presentation software in the Open Office suite) is cool and Powerpoint is Evil - Edward Tufte, the Yale Professor and authority on information design who wrote the classic book on statistical graphics, explains why (although he's complaining about all slideware, not just Powerpoint) in the 2003 Wired article.
Nevertheless, slideware are still good tools for improving one's own
information design skills. I also found this NASA booklet from the 1960s: Clarity in Technical Reporting
which has amazing advice for both writing technical reports (remember your reader and no shadowboxing, for example), receiving
reviewers' comments on one's writings, as well as giving technical
talks and presentations (1 slide/chart for every 2 -3 minutes of talk).
10:45:18 PM
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Anita S. Coleman.
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