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Martin Wattenberg, one of the creators of Many Eyes, in reply to "Why is a numbers guy like you so interested in large textual data sets?" The entire literary canon …
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As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs. Lisa Simpson. The Simpsons. Episode 257. January 7, 2001. …
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. John W. Tukey. Exploratory Data Analysis. 1977. Love it. Great …
Wise Words from John Tukey
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