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John Tukey has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• One of my favorite ways to easily review results is Google Analytics Dashboards. Don't have dashboards set up? I can help you…
• 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…
• In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence…
• There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of…
• 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.

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