24 Quotes by John Tukey

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

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

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

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

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

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

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

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.