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

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.

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

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.

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.

Ideas aren't magical

Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that.

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]

If no one knows you, then you are no one.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

Hey, everybody, Jerry Maguire's here.