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Turning Data into Information

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Landwehr and Watkins point out that exploratory data analysis techniques like stem-and-leaf plots are designed to help professionals reveal perhaps unexpected "patterns and surprises"* within sets of data.

*In their Perface to Exploring Data, Dale Seymour Publications, Palo Alto, 1986