Comment Re:Go see a Tufte lecture (Score 2, Interesting) 93
Tufte is a wonderful lecturer.
He promotes himself aggressively.
He picks on some sacred cows that need to be picked on, such Powerpoint. (It is alarming that business leaders believe it is reasonable to expect complex ideas to be explained in a few sentence fragments.)
Tufte missed the boat on interactive computing - he's stuck on the printed page. Which is OK, but how are you reading this? I did notice in one of his latest talks that the sort of icons and tiny unreadable plots that would be bad if other people used them, are good if Tufte uses them. But, hey, he's only human like the rest of us and sometimes ambiguous little decorations do look good!
He promotes himself aggressively.
He picks on some sacred cows that need to be picked on, such Powerpoint. (It is alarming that business leaders believe it is reasonable to expect complex ideas to be explained in a few sentence fragments.)
Tufte missed the boat on interactive computing - he's stuck on the printed page. Which is OK, but how are you reading this? I did notice in one of his latest talks that the sort of icons and tiny unreadable plots that would be bad if other people used them, are good if Tufte uses them. But, hey, he's only human like the rest of us and sometimes ambiguous little decorations do look good!
