John Tukey Professions : StatisticianBorn : June 16, 1915Died : July 26, 2000 Browse All Authors Top 20 quotes by John Tukey An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. John Tukey dataanswersscience The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. John Tukey dataunexpecteddrawing The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard. John Tukey backyardsstatisticsplay 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 databodydesire 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 typepiedata It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly. John Tukey riskproblemmanagement This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization. John Tukey datamy-favoriteboring Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong. John Tukey Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know. John Tukey dataevilmeaningful 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 statisticsmadeanswers Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values. John Tukey unexpectedstatisticsfocus When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point. John Tukey communicatetyperesults In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation. John Tukey increaseeconomicsworld 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 differentaskingworld In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation. John Tukey datasimplicitythinking 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 ableviewsway I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer. John Tukey adequatecomputergroups If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one. John Tukey keysworkmeaningful An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one. John Tukey worthquestionanswerwrong In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' John Tukey directionimportantworldknowledge Similar Authors Bradley Efron statistician Austin Bradford Hill statistician Andrew Gelman statistician Andreas Schleicher statistician Adrian Smith statistician Don Berry statisticianAll Authors
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