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Honestly? I do not care much about charts in general, while I do care much about the availability of the data used to produce a chart... In way too much cases I see plots and no data, sometimes data are there but not easy to use, and another thing I do care is the ability to tweak a graph.

The above are between the reasons I prefer remote meeting where data are to be shown instead of in person: anyone attending should have a computer ready to use and IF data are shared and ready usable I can live tweaks a plot ad reason on it while I listen end eventually pose relevant questions shown at my own turn something. Surely not all presentations are meant to be interactive session, but being able to interact even in async form reading a journal article, playing with the data and eventually drop a mail to the author is a nice thing, typically uselessly hard today where in tech term it can be extremely simple.

That's another reason I have presentation software/office automation one instead of plain org-mode, Jupyter, R Studio etc because change things it's hard while it should be easy. Org-mode is excellent to present but not really interactive, I have to regenerate plots to see changes or push data to external software, Jupyter is not really meant to present, R Studio offer nice LaTeX integration and tabular view but do not offer nice means to present, though they are still FAR better then presentation software and even if have some safety aspects to be taken into account I prefer countless of time receiving an active document (org-mode, jupyter notebook etc) instead of a pdf or even worse some office formats.



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