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John Tukey Quotes: "An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem."

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



John Tukey Quotes: "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard."

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




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

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



John Tukey Quotes: "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."

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.




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

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



John Tukey Quotes: "It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly."

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



John Tukey Quotes: "Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong."

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.




John Tukey Quotes: "Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise."

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.



John Tukey Quotes: "Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values."

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



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

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



John Tukey Quotes: "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 B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish."

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 B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.



John Tukey Quotes: "To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain."

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.




John Tukey Quotes: "I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer."

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



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

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