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Quote: All scientific work is incomplete…
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Quote: The most challenging thing in the world…
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Quote: Exploratory data analysis is an attitude…
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Quote: The combination of some data …
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“The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from some data.” John Tukey, as quoted in “Sunset Salvo.” The American Statistician 1986, 40(1), 72-76.
Quote: In a world where the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly…
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Quote: Without data…
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“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” W. Edwards Deming. As quoted at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/310261.W_Edwards_Deming.
Quote: That’s not an experiment…
Referring to anecdotal data: “That’s not an experiment you have there, that’s an experience.” Sir Ronald A. Fisher.
Quote: “Excel’s graphics can be great. The problem occurs …
…when people assume that the Excel output is enough. I think of all the research papers in economics where the authors must have spent dozens of hours trying all sorts of different model specifications, dozens of hours writing and rewriting the prose of the article, . . . and 15 minutes making the graphs.” Andrew Gelman, quoted at http://andrewgelman.com/2009/04/22/more_on_data_vi/.