Thoughts and books from one of the greatest analysts, John Tukey

 
 

Books by John Tukey

 

Great thoughts from John Tukey

 

…Far better an approximate answer to the right question,

   than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise….

 

 

Once upon a time statisticians only explored.

Then they learned to confirm exactly — to confirm a few things exactly, each under very specific circumstances.

As they emphasized exact confirmation, their techniques inevitably became less flexible.

The connection of the most used techniques with past insights was weakened.

Anything to which a confirmatory procedure was not explicitly attached was decried as ‘mere descriptive statistics’, no matter how much we had learned from it.

 

 

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart,

that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

 

 

 
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In our opinion, Tukey was one of the greatest data analysts of all time

He coined the terms “bits” and “software

He was a professor at Princeton and executive director at Bell Labs

He was an eminent statistician making many important contributions including:

  Techniques for “robust analysis

  Approaches to exploratory data analysis

  Developing graphing and plotting methods

  Numerous publications on time series analysis

  Fast Fourier transform– critical today in the fields of physics and electrical engineering


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