Characterized Quote by Charles Francis Richter

Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II. A curve…

— William Sealy Gosset

The top-down, vertical power relationships of the past are being replaced by a more evenly distributed, bottom-up variety.

— Clive Lewis

“The biggest shift was from a bar graph to a line graph. As we’ve discussed, line graphs typically make it easier to see trends…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to…

— Charles Francis Richter

The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

— Thomas Koenig

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

— Vanna Bonta

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

— Democritus

Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a…

— Stephanie Coontz

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going…

— Leo Ornstein

Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to…

— Frances E. Willard

“A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.”

— Barbara Branden