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.

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

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

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.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.