RE: OT : Learning curve

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.

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-----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
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