Om dåliga designers

"these problems are more than just poor design, for a lack of visual clarity in arranging evidence is a sign of a lack of intellectual clarity in reasoning about evidence."*

Om dålig design

"Chartjunk indicates statistical stupidity, just as weak writing often reflects weak thought."*

Om bevis

"Numbers become evidence by being in relation to."*

Om presentationer

1. Near the beginning of your presentation, tell the audience:
What the problem is
Why the problem is important
What the solution to the problem is[...]

2. To explain complex ideas or data, use the method of PGP:
Particular General Particular [...]

3. No matter what, give everybody in the audience one or more pieces of paper, packed with material related to your presentation. [...]

4. Analyze the details of your presentation; then master those details by practice, practice, practice. [...]

5. Show up early, something good is bound to happen. [...]

6. Finish early. *

Om dåliga designprocesser

"In designing [...] the [...] makers didn't quite know what they were doing, and they were doing a lot of it."*

Om kvalitet

"Standards of quality may slip when it comes to visual displays; imprecise and undocumented work that would be unacceptable for words or tables of data too often shows up in graphics. Since it s all evidence - regardless of the method of presentation - the highest standards of statistical integrety and statistical thinking should apply to every data representation, including visual displays." *

Om kunskap II

"The point is to get it right, not to win the case, not to sweep under the rug all the assorted puzzles and inconsistencies that frequently occur in collections of data"*

Om kunskap

"Embodied in the very first maps were all the ideas necessary for making statistical graphics - quantified measures of locations of nouns in two dimensional space - and yet it took 5,000 years to change the name of the coordinates fromwest-east and north-south to empirically measured variables X and Y"*