A report from #JSM Joint Statistical Meetings 2014
Stephen Stigler, the preeminent historian of statistics, gave a great talk at
Aggregation
Respect the reader's time
A graphic illustrating how Americans spend their time is a perfect foil
Getting the basics right is half the battle
I was traveling quite a lot recently, and last week, read the
The index of an index is confusion
The puzzle of negative numbers
How effective visualization brings data alive
Bringing data alive
An overused chart, why it fails, and how to fix it
A chart with conceptual appeal but fails the data