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Saturday, December 17, 2005
 

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).

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