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Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

1989

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Evaluation Of Presentation Graphics For The Agricultural Sciences, Kathy Shelley Apr 1989

Evaluation Of Presentation Graphics For The Agricultural Sciences, Kathy Shelley

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

Professional-looking text and graphic slides enable an audience to comprehend the main ideas of a presentation more quickly. With the advent of easy-to-use graphic software packages and the affordability of personal computer hardware to run this software, researchers may now prepare their own slides or transparencies. This paper describes basic graphic software design and offers criteria for selection of an appropriate software package for scientific research presentations. Comparisons between two prototype graphics packages, Harvard Graphics and SAS/Graph, are made on the basis of the following selection criteria: (1) basic software design, (2) available hardware, (3) output device drivers, (4) available …