<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>InclinedPlane</author><text>This should be an easy job. Just photoshop an image of a black hole with a giant pile of nearly a trillion dollars falling into it.</text></comment>