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Data Quotes by John Tukey
- This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
- 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…
- 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.
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