In a prior post I made the statement that cost accounting was EVIL. This recent article about Dr. Edward Tufte’s (Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics and Computer Science at Yale University) appointment to a post in the Obama administration reminded me of how decades ago I came about critically analyzing the appropriate usage of mathematics and graphs. One of his most memorable sayings, “PowerPoint is evil”, implies much more about our society than our inability to make decent graphs. Thank you Dr. Tufte…
