Edward Tufte Talks information Design

BoredStiff writes "The Weekend Edition of NPR ran a story on Edward Tufte — the outspoken critic of PowerPoint presentations — he has been described by The New York Times as "The Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. Tufte's most recent book is filled with hundreds of illustrations that demonstrate one concept: good design is timeless, while bad design can be a matter of life and death."

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Gettysburg address in powerpoint

[imaginaryelf]

Gettysburg address in powerpoint: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/

Re:The Leonardo da Vinci of Data?

[commodoresloat]

I regard myself as the Vincent Van Goch of data. There's nothing quite like a bottle of absinthe to help you put an artistic spin on that backup copy.

And I am the Jackson Pollack of data! They don't let me near the spreadsheets much anymore though....

Re:Bad Design

[version5]

"TWiki" should be called "GroupEditor" or at worst, "BullPen"...

Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning 'fast' or 'quick', so it does at least partly describe the function of the software. You might complain that not everyone is familiar with Hawaaian words, but then not everyone is familiar with baseball terminology from which you derived "BullPen". Open source software tends to have a very cross-cultural, cross-language audience. Do you suggest that projects rename themselves for each language they target? Projects are named for marketing purposes, to be memorable and appealing. It sounds very much like you just hate the idea of marketing, so I will rename you CrankyBastard, which I think we can all agree is memorable, appealing and accurately describes you!