<story><title>Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds</title><url>http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003e0&amp;topic_id=1#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>CoreDumpling</author><text>I sincerely hope Tufte can successfully counteract the Washington tradition of applying the methods from &lt;i&gt;How to Lie with Statistics&lt;/i&gt;.  A good visualization can just as well expose the fraud from a contrived one.</text></comment>
<story><title>Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds</title><url>http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003e0&amp;topic_id=1#</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkh</author><text>Obama scored some big points in my book for this one.&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;p&gt;When he did not follow up on his promise to have C-Span follow the health care debates, left a bad taste in my mouth.&lt;p&gt;I have attended a Tufte conference, and he spent a lot of time discussing the challenger disaster.  While he was no where near the as good as Feynman (who is?), he graphically presented the government information very well.&lt;p&gt;If anything it will draw attention to the problem as he is a big name in this space.</text></comment>