http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10439/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/ A bunch of stuff I would have emailed you about. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:08:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10439/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-168609 UC Berkeley Proud Of PowerPoint « MaisonBisson.com Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:42:46 +0000 /?p=10439#comment-168609 [...] Byrne giving a talk titled “I ♥ PowerPoint.” And, yes, they’re all perfectly aware of Edward Tuftem, the PowerPoint-related deaths, and funny stuff like [...] [...] Byrne giving a talk titled “I ♥ PowerPoint.” And, yes, they’re all perfectly aware of Edward Tuftem, the PowerPoint-related deaths, and funny stuff like [...]

]]> http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10439/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-43265 The URLs From My Portland Talk « MaisonBisson.com Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:55:19 +0000 /?p=10439#comment-43265 [...] Following Edward Tufte’s advice, I’ve been wanting to offer a presentation without slides for a long time now. I finally got my chance in Portland. The downside is that now I don’t have anything to offer as a takeaway memory aid for my talk. My speaking notes are too abstract to offer for public consumption, but below are the URLs from them along with a tiny bit of context. [...] [...] Following Edward Tufte’s advice, I’ve been wanting to offer a presentation without slides for a long time now. I finally got my chance in Portland. The downside is that now I don’t have anything to offer as a takeaway memory aid for my talk. My speaking notes are too abstract to offer for public consumption, but below are the URLs from them along with a tiny bit of context. [...]

]]> http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10439/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-29256 Data Visualization and the OPAC « MaisonBisson.com Sat, 21 Jan 2006 14:03:28 +0000 /?p=10439#comment-29256 [...] A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs: data isn’t usable by itself if it was then the OPAC would just be marc displays [...] [...] A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs: data isn’t usable by itself if it was then the OPAC would just be marc displays [...]

]]> http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10439/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-25874 Joel Friesen’s Misuse of PowerPoint « MaisonBisson.com Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:26:40 +0000 /?p=10439#comment-25874 [...] Joel Friesen’s PowerPoint-esque presentation on why his girlfriend should continue to date him didn’t win her back, but it entertained folks. [...] [...] Joel Friesen’s PowerPoint-esque presentation on why his girlfriend should continue to date him didn’t win her back, but it entertained folks. [...]

]]> http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10439/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-1314 MaisonBisson.com » Blog Archive » PowerPoint. Killer App? Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:46:04 +0000 /?p=10439#comment-1314 [...] Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post wonders if PowerPoint is a killing app. She’s not the first to note that NASA administrators make decisions — sometimes fatal decisions — on the basis of PowerPoint presentations that mask or misrepresent details. I wrote about Edward Tufte’s Cognitive Style of PowerPoint essay in a previous post. Marcus doesn’t add to many new points, but the column is a sign that an anti-PowerPoint movement may be growing. Here are three paragraphs: [T]he insidious influence of PowerPoint goes beyond the way it frustrates scientific analysis. The deeper problem with the PowerPointing of America — the PowerPointing of the planet, actually — is that the program tends to flatten the most complex, subtle, even beautiful, ideas into tedious, bullet-pointed bureaucratese. [...] [...] Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post wonders if PowerPoint is a killing app. She’s not the first to note that NASA administrators make decisions — sometimes fatal decisions — on the basis of PowerPoint presentations that mask or misrepresent details. I wrote about Edward Tufte’s Cognitive Style of PowerPoint essay in a previous post. Marcus doesn’t add to many new points, but the column is a sign that an anti-PowerPoint movement may be growing. Here are three paragraphs: [T]he insidious influence of PowerPoint goes beyond the way it frustrates scientific analysis. The deeper problem with the PowerPointing of America — the PowerPointing of the planet, actually — is that the program tends to flatten the most complex, subtle, even beautiful, ideas into tedious, bullet-pointed bureaucratese. [...]

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