In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
One of my favorite ways to easily review results is Google Analytics Dashboards. Don't have dashboards set up? I can help you set one… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart. — John Tukey Copy Share Image
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
