John Tukey was an outstanding statistician, born on June 16, 1915, and passed away on July 26, 2000. He made significant contributions to the field of statistics, particularly in exploratory data analysis, non-parametric statistics, and computer science.
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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.”