[Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Mon Jan 11 18:00:07 CET 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:

>  who wants to write rgl code to do these?

> http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2
> http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8

>  :-)

I think that on this one we should follow Nancy Reagan's advice and
"Just say no".

I wonder if they have read Tufte's descriptions of "chart junk".  If
so they missed the point that chart junk isn't a good thing.



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