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This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.
The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.
Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.
... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.
You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.
Racism is predictable. It's predicted by interaction or lack thereof with people unlike you, people of other races.
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.
The grand assertion is that you must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need.
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.
When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.
Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.
People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.