Chance News 94

Quotations

"...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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“6. (Mar's Law) Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.”

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

Submitted by Margaret Cibes

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