The cognitive style of PowerPointUsing specific examples, Tufte explains how PowerPoint's templates "usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning and almost always corrupt statistical analysis," and describes concrete ways to improve content of presentations. |
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User Review - jcopenha - LibraryThingWow, Tufte is really pissed off at PowerPoint. I agree with his assessment that powerpoint is the wrong tool for conveying technical analysis. And I can see where PowerPoint leads you into traps, but ... Read full review
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User Review - GrumpyBob - LibraryThingThis booklet is excepted from one of Tufte's other books, and is at times a spectacularly intemperate rant against PowerPoint. My view is that software packages are a tool and should used as such. Tufte makes good points as usual, but PowerPoint isn't the villain, i think. Read full review
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| Title | The cognitive style of PowerPoint |
| Author | Edward R. Tufte |
| Publisher | Graphics Press, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 27 pages |
| Subjects | › › Computers / Desktop Applications / Presentation Software Computers / General |
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