An American statician and retired professor of statistics, information design and interface design at Yale University, Edward Tufte has been discribed as "the da Vinci of Data." Tufte's writing covers the fields such as information design and visual literacy, focusing on visual communication of information. Often accused of being "merciless towards the misleading" Tufte feels that time is wasted by "deciphering bad designs" when "the wonder of data" could be being explored. And to those who say statistics and data are boring, well Tufte has a response. "If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers."
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