The cognitive style of PowerPoint
Mika Raento

PowerPoint is ubiquitous. It is used in businesses, the military and in
academia. Edvard Tufte, _the_ guru of presentation of quantitative data,
claims that PowerPoint makes it impossible to present complex ideas or
data due to its sales-pitch style, low resolution of computer screens,
unnecessary hierarchies and bullet points. He goes as far as to blame
the Columbia shuttle accident on PowerPoint presentations of the debris
impact analysis and to compare the style of powerpoint to the style of
totalitarian newspapers.

We shall discuss his reasoning and how it relates to academic
presentations.

Lyhennelmä Tuften artikelista:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html (Wired)

Koko pamfletti (intranet, ei saa levittää julkisesti):
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/i/mraento/tufte.pdf (scan, large)
Minulta voi myös hakea kopion.

       Mika