I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what’s up on the pedestal – the great leader.
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What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.
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Birth: | 14th March, 1942 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Professor, Statistician, Writer |
Edward Rolf Tufte was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He received a BS and MS in statistics from Stanford University and a PhD in political science from Yale. His dissertation, completed in 1968, was entitled The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opposition.
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