From bates at stat.wisc.edu  Mon Jan 11 18:00:07 2010
From: bates at stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:00:07 -0600
Subject: [Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:

> ?who wants to write rgl code to do these?

> http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2
> http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8

> ?:-)

I think that on this one we should follow Nancy Reagan's advice and
"Just say no".

I wonder if they have read Tufte's descriptions of "chart junk".  If
so they missed the point that chart junk isn't a good thing.



[Rd] snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7
Douglas Bates