Statistics
Jun. 19th, 2024 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeideal...no nation ranks higher in its collective passion for statistics. In Japan, statistics are the subject of a holiday, local and national conventions, awards ceremonies and nationwide statistical collection and graph-drawing contests. "This year," said Yoshiharu Takahashi, a Government statistician, "we had almost 30,000 entries. Actually, we had 29,836."
Andrew H. Malcolm, New York Times, 1977, quoted in Edward Tufte, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information."
I'm pretty sure I read a Tufte book (not sure whether it was this one or a different one) six years ago, but I wrote down the title wrong. (I also read a standalone chapter/reprint from another book more recently, which contrasted good use of data display [John Snow researching the cholera epidemic] to bad use of data display [the Challenger disaster]). Anyway, my review from 2018 is definitely the same review I'd give to this book, which is: "Examples of what not to do were good, the suggested “best practices” felt a little radical at times though."
I'm pretty sure I read a Tufte book (not sure whether it was this one or a different one) six years ago, but I wrote down the title wrong. (I also read a standalone chapter/reprint from another book more recently, which contrasted good use of data display [John Snow researching the cholera epidemic] to bad use of data display [the Challenger disaster]). Anyway, my review from 2018 is definitely the same review I'd give to this book, which is: "Examples of what not to do were good, the suggested “best practices” felt a little radical at times though."
