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"...classic PPT statistical graphic: 13 logos, 10 numbers, 9 bubbles, 1 giant green arrow."
"...classic PPT statistical graphic: 13 logos, 10 numbers, 9 bubbles, 1 giant green arrow."


<div align=right> -- Edward Tufte, [https://twitter.com/EdwardTufte/status/342819681054375936/photo/1 tweeting] about the NSA's presentation on its data collection activities</div>
<div align=right> -- Edward Tufte, [https://twitter.com/EdwardTufte/status/342819681054375936/photo/1 tweeting] about the NSA's presentation on its controversial data-collection activities.</div>


Quoted in [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/07/the-real-nsa-scandal-the-horrible-slides/ The real NSA scandal? The horrible slides]. ''Washington Post'', Wonkblog, 7 June 2013.
[quoted in: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/07/the-real-nsa-scandal-the-horrible-slides/ The real NSA scandal? The horrible slides]. ''Washington Post'', Wonkblog, 7 June 2013.]


Submitted by Bill Peterson
Submitted by Bill Peterson

Revision as of 19:49, 12 June 2013

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"...classic PPT statistical graphic: 13 logos, 10 numbers, 9 bubbles, 1 giant green arrow."

-- Edward Tufte, tweeting about the NSA's presentation on its controversial data-collection activities.

[quoted in: The real NSA scandal? The horrible slides. Washington Post, Wonkblog, 7 June 2013.]

Submitted by Bill Peterson

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Statistics Without Borders

Statistics Without Borders
(not to be confused with “Statisticians WithOut Borders), a consulting group)

Current or future statisticians may be interested in the all-volunteer organization Statistics Without Borders. SWB is an Outreach Group of the ASA consisting of over 400 volunteer statisticians who provide free statistical consulting to organizations and government agencies, particularly from developing nations. Its goal is to “promote the use of statistics to improve the health and well-being of all people.”

The April 2013 issue of Significance magazine contains an article, “Haiti after the earthquake,”[1] that describes one of their 2010 projects.

Submitted by Margaret Cibes

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