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Howard Wainer
Howard Wainer is a statistician and author. His most recent book, Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think like a Data Scientist, was published by Cambridge University Press and was named by the Financial Times of London to its list of “Top six books of 2016.” He is currently collaborating with Michael Friendly on a history of graphics, On the Origin of Graphic Species, which will be published by Harvard University Press. He has written this column in CHANCE continuously since 1990.