Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] How NOT to use Power Point

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Jerry Gamblin wrote:

> Came across this great link on improving your power point skills:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLpjrHzgSRM
>
> very funny ;-)


Nice.  I just got back from a conference so I can say that even the 
professional presenters with years of experience do some of these things 
poorly.  One thing I was getting a lot of, and hating, was the 3-d bar 
charts:  They have depth, but the depth doesn't convey information and it 
only makes the numbers much harder to discern.  Here's one:

http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/images/3D-Sdgm.gif

So sometimes you can see where the bar lines up with the back wall and you 
can figure out from that how tall it is, but other times the bar doesn't 
go that far back, so you really can't figure out easily how tall it is! 
I mean, it's nuts.  The thing is, a simple bar graph does a much better 
job:

http://www.chestysoft.com/xgraph/images/bar.gif

Color: unnecessary.  Legend: unnecessary.  I like error bars and I like 
numerical labels.  Why not? -- That is information we can use!

Check this out:

http://www.geoafrica.co.za/reddog/gsw/grapherwhatsnew.htm

Are those 3-d graphs a joke?  I was hoping they were a joke, but I'm not 
sure.  It amazes me that people might believe that such absurd graphs are 
good in some way.

Mike

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