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Date:   Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:11:52 -0500
Reply-To:   Peter Flom <flom@NDRI.ORG>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   Peter Flom <flom@NDRI.ORG>
Subject:   Re: User group presentations (was Re: [SAS-L] Edward Tufte)
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Well, since finding out about LaTeX and the Beamer package, I plan on no longer using Powerpoint unless I have to.

But the differences are of degree, not kind. The end result is still a set of slides.

Peter

Peter L. Flom, PhD Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core Center for Drug Use and HIV Research National Development and Research Institutes 71 W. 23rd St www.peterflom.com New York, NY 10010 (212) 845-4485 (voice) (917) 438-0894 (fax)

>>> Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG> 02/11/05 11:44 PM >>> At 01:02 pm 2/11/2005 -0800, David L. Cassell wrote:

>Jack Hamilton <jfh@STANFORDALUMNI.ORG> replied to Paul Choate: > > >At your next SAS conference tally the number of PowerPoint >presentations. > > >My experience is that they number over 9 of 10. > > > > Maybe 99 out of 100 if you count any use of PP. > >I think it's N-1 out of N, and 100% if you don't count Eric >Gebhart presenting on his FreeBSD laptop. :-)

I'd forgotten about that (he uses OpenOffice.org). I think I'd count that as PowerPoint in terms of final effect.

----- Jack Hamilton jfh@alumni.stanford.org Sacramento, California


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