What is it like to dislike data?

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This year’s Joint Statistical Meetings have me as a panelist for the memorial session of a well-respected professor of statistics. He devoted his work to the human aspect of statistical consulting. He was also my major advisor for the master’s program in statistics.

I have been reflecting on the question of what I identify as his biggest influence on me. As many things that have to do with humans, it is a…