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“This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.”

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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. more

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