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

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

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

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.

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.

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.

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.

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.

Cleave to the common good. We are all responsible for bringing about the time of great suffering, for its continuing.

You are truly living when you have inner peace. You are far away from the beauty of life when you are fighting a war.

Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

I like a lot of west coast stuff like Aerial Pink.

It's good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.

I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

I wear boxers all the time. I don't really move like a girl. I mean, unless it's time for me to get dressed or something.