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Analytics Quote by John Tukey

“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.” quote by John Tukey — Download Open image

“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.”

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When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.

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Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

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In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the…

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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a…

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I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

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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…

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Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to…

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It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.

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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…

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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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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always…

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If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

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In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy.

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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

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It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The…

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The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

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Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

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The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this…

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