https://alandove.com/tags/speaking/ Recent content in Speaking on Alan Dove, Ph.D. Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Alan Dove Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:54:20 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2018/2018-10-11-oral-presentations-and-the-bandwidth-illusion/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:54:20 -0400 https://alandove.com/posts/2018/2018-10-11-oral-presentations-and-the-bandwidth-illusion/ Which contains more information: a five-minute video or a five-page document? As anyone who’s had to pay for excess cellular bandwidth knows, the video contains far more raw data than the text file. That doesn’t mean it has more information, though. What if the video shows someone reading a Dr. Seuss book aloud? Most of the raw data in the video would just be a binary encoding of the speaker’s picture, and a tiny bit of motion around their mouth.