Alexander von Humboldt Quotes

Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows for feeling.

You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

I'm an analytics girl.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking about, what you are actually proposing. It gets you away from the catch phrases that not merely substitute for thought but preclude it.

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.