[R] The Perils of PowerPoint

[Duncan Murdoch]

Mulholland, Tom wrote:
> For some reason (probably that our organisation has blocked the site) I could not see the original articles that prompted the post. I however immediately assumed that this was precipitated by Tufte and his comments about PowerPoint (I recall seeing a good example of PowerPoint on his site) http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
> 
> When this first came up I recall some dispute about the comments www.sociablemedia.com/articles_dispute.htm and that John Fox did something 
 >http://ils.unc.edu/~jfox/powerpoint/introduction.html that I enjoyed 
reading.

I think that's by a different Fox named Jackson, not John.  It's an 
interesting reading, though.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Other links that are lying on my computer are
> "In defense of PowerPoint" http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/in_defense_of_powerp.html
> and "Does PowerPoint make you stupid?" at http://www.presentations.com/presentations/delivery/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000482464
>  
> Tom
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Tim Churches
>>Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:08 AM
>>To: ted.harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
>>Cc: Achim Zeileis; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>Subject: Re: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint
>>
>>
>>(Ted Harding) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>By the way, the Washington Post/Minneapolis Star Tribune article is
>>>somewhat reminiscent of a short (15 min) broadcast on BBC Radio 4
>>>back on October 18 2004 15:45-16:00 called
>>>
>>> "Microsoft Powerpoint and the Decline of Civilisation"
>>>
>>>which explores similar themes and also frequently quotes Tufte.
>>>Unfortunately it lapsed for ever from "Listen Again" after the
>>>statutory week, so I can't point you to a replay. (However, I
>>>have carefully preserved the cassette recording I made).
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>Try http://sooper.org/misc/powerpoint.mp3 (copyright law 
>>notwithstanding...)
>>
>>Tim C
>>
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