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Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2005 10:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint
(Ted Harding) wrote:
By the way, the Washington Post/Minneapolis Star Tribune article is
somewhat
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
On 06-Sep-05 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
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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
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bogdan romocea
Sent: 06 September 2005 18:43
To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint
I don't understand why there's so much discussion on
PowerPoint. IMHO, that can only obscure the real thing
Mike Waters wrote:
And thus to that 'New Age' Management Role, that of the Professional
PowePoint Ranger. He (invariably he) who culls the fruits of the labours of
others to present in ever more slick PowerPoint compendia, whilst never
sullying their hands with 'real' work.
In academia
I incorrectly relied upon my memory
...
and that
John Fox did something
http://ils.unc.edu/~jfox/powerpoint/introduction.html that I
enjoyed reading.
The work is that of Jackson Fox
Tom
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Hi all,
Below is a URL for an editorial published today in our local newspaper,
the Minneapolis StarTribune. It was originally published in the
Washington Post a couple of days ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444.html
but that site requires
: [R] The Perils of PowerPoint
Hi all,
Below is a URL for an editorial published today in our local newspaper,
the Minneapolis StarTribune. It was originally published in the
Washington Post a couple of days ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901444
-Original Message-
From: ... Robert Baer
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:30 AM
It is wrong to blame ANY tool for our own shortcomings!
Surely a fortune!
David L. Reiner
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:27:45 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: ... Robert Baer
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:30 AM
It is wrong to blame ANY tool for our own shortcomings!
Surely a fortune!
thx, added to the devel-version of fortunes.
I can't lay my hands n it at the moment - its around here somewhere,
but in Numerical Methods That Work by Forman Acton, the author
points out that the result of computation should be insight, not
numbers
ps. an excellent book if you haven't seen it.
On 02-Sep-05 Sean O'Riordain wrote:
I can't lay my hands n it at the moment - its around here somewhere,
but in Numerical Methods That Work by Forman Acton, the author
points out that the result of computation should be insight, not
numbers
ps. an excellent book if you haven't seen it.
LOL Ted! That's a great quote for fortune()!
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 01:06 +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 02-Sep-05 Sean O'Riordain wrote:
I can't lay my hands n it at the moment - its around here somewhere,
but in Numerical Methods That Work by Forman Acton, the author
points out that the
(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
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