I second the recommendation to buy and read Tufte's books, whether you're the creator of graphic communication, or just the victim of it.
When I was at Oracle management meetings, you could always tell the groups that were underperforming financially. They had the most complicated charts. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic 101 in Denver, Sydney - Hotsos Symposium 2004, March 7-10 Dallas - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details... -----Original Message----- Jared Still Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have two or three of Tuftes more well known books. For anyone that creates presentations with graphics, these are a must have. For anyone that feels stupid because they can't understand someone else's charts in an power-point presentation, these are a must have. Hint: It ain't you. It's terribly ironic that the most informative and easy to understand chart ever created was drawn by hand in the 19th century. I apologize for the somewhat OT nature of this reply, but as most of us are in IT, we are subjected to meaningless charts with alarming regularity. Jared On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 03:59, Stephane Faroult wrote: > I stumbled by chance into the following article > http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html > which, without being in anyway related to Oracle, will probably ring familiar bells - and what it says about programming could probably be said about administration as well. > By the way (and still more OT) I came to this site because of the PowerPoint 'Gettysburgh address' and I was brought there by a reference on Edward Tufte's site (http://www.edwardtufte.com), all of them worth a look if you have imports or installations to run. > > Regards, > > Stephane Faroult > Oriole > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Stephane Faroult > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Cary Millsap INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
