{"id":244,"date":"2007-05-22T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T13:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=244"},"modified":"2019-07-23T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T00:05:16","slug":"edward-tufte-short-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2007\/edward-tufte-short-course","title":{"rendered":"Edward Tufte Short Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-245\" title=\"tufte_columbia\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tufte_columbia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\"\/>Just back from attending this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/courses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">short course<\/a> by the master of &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edward Tufte<\/a>. It was well worth the time and effort! I&#8217;d recommend it to anyone who prepares or presents information with a computer (ie, just about everyone!). His insights are numerous and often challenge conventional wisdom. His bottom line is to <strong>enhance communication by increasing the dimensionality and resolution of data<\/strong>. The course included copies of all four of his major books, highlighting the most recent, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/books_be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beautiful Evidence<\/a><\/em>. The photo shows his discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/bboard\/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powerpoint&#8217;s role in the Columbia disaster<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/2005\/9\/powerpoint-is-evil-by-edward-tufte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I reviewed in 2005<\/a> and is included in <em>Beautiful Evidence<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Visit my&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rathe.medinfo.ufl.edu\/powerpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using PowerPoint Effectively<\/a> resource page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from attending this short course by the master of &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; himself Edward Tufte. It was well worth the time and effort! I&#8217;d recommend it to anyone who prepares or presents information with a computer (ie, just about everyone!). His insights are numerous and often challenge conventional wisdom. His bottom line is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2007\/edward-tufte-short-course\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edward Tufte Short Course&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8,47,18],"tags":[451,452],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-education","category-people","category-reviews","category-technology","tag-edward-tufte","tag-powerpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}