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SUMMARY:Power / Art / Control / Propaganda
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Power / Art / Control / Propaganda\n
Text: Jas Elsner
 \, in "Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD
  100-450":\n
"Power is a far more complex and mysterious quality than any 
 apparently simple manifestation of it would appear.  It is as much a matte
 r of impression\, of theatre\, of persuading those over whom authority is 
 wielded to collude in their subjugation.  Insofar as power is a matter of 
 presentation\, its cultural currency in antiquity (and still today) was th
 e creation\, manipulation\, and display of images.  In the propagation of 
 the imperial office\, ... art was power."\n
(quoted by Tufte)\n
Date: 09/2
 4/07\n
ID: 11872
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SUMMARY:Culture
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Culture\n
Text: Tufte: "Human activities ... take pla
 ce in intensely comparative and multivariate contexts filled with causal i
 deas: intervention\, purpose\, responsibility\, consequence\, explanation\
 , intention\, action\, prevention\, diagnosis\, strategy\, decision\, infl
 uence\, planning." (139)\n
Date: 09/24/07\n
ID: 11825
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SUMMARY:Teaching / Education / Information / Media: PowerPoint
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Teaching / Education / Information / Media: PowerPoin
 t\n
Text: Tufte on the "core ideas of teaching":\n
"explanation\, reasonin
 g\, finding things out\, questioning\, content\, evidence\, credible autho
 rity not patronizing authoritarianism"\n
\n
he notes that all of these are
  "contrary to the cognitive style of PowerPoint"\n
Date: 09/24/07\n
ID: 11
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SUMMARY:Information / Design
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Information / Design\n
Text: Tufte's "First Principle
  for the analysis and presentation of data" -- "Show comparisons\, contras
 ts\, differences."\n
\n
Second Principle: "Show causality\, mechanism\, ex
 planation\, systematic structure."\n
\n
Third: "Show multivariate data\; t
 hat is\, show more than 1 or 2 variables."  ("Nearly all the interesting w
 orlds (physical\, biological\, imaginary\, human) we seek to understand ar
 e inevitably multivariate in nature ... [Include conditions such as] inter
 action effects\, multiple causes\, multiple effects\, causal sequences\, s
 ources of bias" etc. (129)\n
\n
Fourth: "Completely integrate words\, numb
 ers\, images\, diagrams."  (Aim for "a broad\, pluralistic\, problem-direc
 ted view of what constitutes the scope of relevant evidence."  "A deeper u
 nderstanding of human understanding of human behavior may well result from
  integrating a diversity of evidence\, *whatever it takes to explain somet
 hing*")\n
\n
Fifth: "Thoroughly describe the evidence.  Provide a detailed
  title\, indicate the authors and sponsors\, document the data sources\, s
 how complete measurement scales\, point out relevant issues."\n
\n
Sixth: 
 "Analytical presentations ultimately stand or fall depending on the qualit
 y\, relevance\, and integrity of their content."  ("The most effective way
  to improve a presentation is to get better content.")\n
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Date: 09/24/07
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ID: 11813
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SUMMARY:Information
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Information\n
Text: Harvard Business Review complains
  that "Lists can communicate only three logical relationships: sequence (f
 irst to last in time)\; priority (least to most important or vice versa)\;
  or simple membership in a set (these items relate to one another in some 
 way\, but the nature of that relationship remains unstated).  And a list c
 an only show one of those relationships at a time."\n
\n
Part of the peril
 s of using bullet points\n
\n
Tufte\, 170\n
\n
Date: 09/24/07\n
ID: 11974
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SUMMARY:Narrative / Spirituality
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Narrative / Spirituality\n
Text: Flaubert: \n
"The ra
 ge for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless ma
 nias to befall humanity.  Each religion and each philosophy has pretended 
 to have God to itself\, to measure the infinite\, and to know the recipe f
 or happiness.  What arrogance and what madness!  I see\, to the contrary\,
  that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded."\
 n
In Correspondance\, Vol. V (1929)\n
quoted by Tufte\n
Date: 09/24/07\n
I
 D: 11848
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SUMMARY:Communication / Information / Media: PowerPoint
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Communication / Information / Media: PowerPoint\n
Tex
 t: Tufte:\n
a talk proceeds "at a pace of 100 to 160 spoken words per minu
 te"\n
\n
"People read 300 to 1\,000 printed words a minute"\n
\n
"the Powe
 rPoint slide typically shows 40 words\, which is about 8 seconds of silent
  reading material"\n
\n
"The PP slide format has the worst signal / noise 
 ratio of any known method of communication on paper or computer screen."\n
 
Date: 09/24/07\n
ID: 11962
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SUMMARY:Design / Information / Concept
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Design / Information / Concept\n
Text: Tufte's "spark
 lines" - "small\, high-resolution graphics usually embedded in a full cont
 ext of words\, numbers\, images.  Sparklines are *datatwords*: data-intens
 e\, design-simple\, word-sized graphics."\n
\n
\n
"*wordlike* graphics\, w
 ith an intensity of visual distinctions comparable to words and letters."\
 n
Date: 09/24/07\n
ID: 11275
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