[R] The Perils of PowerPoint

[John Sorkin]

Please, do not blame PowerPoint for a poorly prepared or delivered talk.
Blame the person who developed the presentation and the person who
delivered the talk. PowerPoint is a tool. It can use used well or it can
be used poorly. If I may quote a once popular newspaper cartoon
character, Pogo, "We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Us".
John 

John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
Baltimore VA Medical Center GRECC and
University of Maryland School of Medicine Claude Pepper OAIC

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>>> "Mulholland, Tom" <Tom.Mulholland at dpi.wa.gov.au> 09/06 2:26 AM >>>
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.

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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