It is well known that George Washington worked as a public lands surveyor in his youth. Less well known are his activities as one of the first survey samplers in the United States.
Read MoreThere are many familiar aphorisms about statistics. But some were not said by the people to whom they have been attributed…
Read MoreHow Voltaire and mathematician Charles-Marie de La Condamine exploited the comptroller’s ignorance of statistics.
Read MoreYou know about Hamilton’s contributions to the Federalist Papers and the duel, but what about his contributions to American statistics?
Read MoreStatistics don’t just appear; they are the result of care decisions on how to collect and display data. What decisions were made for the Hull House Maps?
Read MoreAgnes Sinclair Holbrook designed and constructed the maps. Why is she so little known today?
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