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Between 1780 and 1820, around the same time that Laplace and Gauss were making their contributions to statistical learning, a Scottish engineer named William Playfair was inventing statistical graphics and laying the foundations for modern data visualization and exploratory data analysis. Playfair invented the line chart and area chart for time-series data, the bar chart to illustrate comparisons between quantities of different categories, and the pie chart to illustrate proportions within a set.
Data Science
John D. Kelleher, Brendan Tierney
British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead recognized this inescapable quality of modern life when he asserted that “civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini PhD
The best test of any institution, and especially of any institution’s roles and rules for using power, is whether everyone flourishes when everyone indwells their roles and plays by the rules, or whether only a few of the participants experience abundance and growth.
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