John Tukey Quotes
- The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
- This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
- When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.
- Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be…
- 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 up.
- The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.
- The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given…
- In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model…
- There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.
- Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
- If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.
- It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
- Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
- I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
- Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be…
- An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.