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Related: If you haven't read Edward Tufte's take down of the PowerPoint slides from the Challenger test data, I highly recommend checking it out: http://www.edw
by brotherjerky 11y ago
Related: If you haven't read Edward Tufte's take down of the PowerPoint slides from the Challenger test data, I highly recommend checking it out: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001yB http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
- epc 11y agoTufte's analysis covers the Columbia disaster in 2003.
- andykellr 11y agoA quick Google search turned up this excerpt of his analysis of the Challenger disaster (beginning on page 14). https://blogs.stockton.edu/hist4690/files/2012/06/Edward-Tufte-Visual-and-Statistical-Thinking.pdf https://blogs.stockton.edu/hist4690/files/2012/06/Edward-Tuf...
- brotherjerky 11y agoYes, this is what I meant to reference. Thanks.
- epc 11y agoAh, ok, Tufte also released an analysis of the PowerPoint decks analyzing the Columbia tile problems. http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
- jordanb 11y agoTufte has done some neat stuff but his claim that Challenger (or even more tenuously, Columbia) were caused by bad powerpoint presentations strains credibility. The problem wasn't that the right people didn't know the danger. The problem was that they had enormous political pressure on them to move forward, and they were able to discount the danger in their own minds and fail to stop the launch despite being informed.
- mannykannot 11y agoTufte's argument is a classic example of an expert placing too much importance on his specialty. In this case, the presentation of the data was, at worst, a second-order issue: the data themselves were enough for anyone prepared to listen.