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Famous John Tukey Quotes
Source: Exploratory Data Analysis
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.”
Source: Exploratory Data Analysis
“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.”
“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”
Source: The Collected Works of John W. Tukey: Philosophy and principles of data analysis, 1949-1964
“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.”