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It's better to solve the right problem approximately than to solve the wrong problem exactly.
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
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.
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.
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.
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
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.
There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.
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.
When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.
