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3 September, 2008 (00:51) | General, Lectures

In the Presentations section of the site I’ve mentioned Edward Tufte and the art of presenting complex information. He even suggests that PowerPoint was complicit in the Challenger disaster due to its inability to convey complex information. Read an extract from his essay The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within here.

Anyway, the following site takes a funny look at presentation of a difficult dataset, showing the common (and very poor) method, and a good method:

Red-shirt fatalities in Star Trek

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