I’m working on a longer study, but for now here are a few links.

Last week, the New York Times had an article on using Chernoff faces to visualize data about baseball managers. The Arbitrarian followed that up with a post that used Chernoff faces to compare some star players in the NBA. Chernoff faces are a way to display data by mapping it onto simplified human faces - you can read more about them here and here. The main reason I’m linking to these is because this method of visualizing data was invented by my great-uncle, Herman Chernoff. He’s made a lot of contributions to the field of statistics in his career, but most of them (like this) aren’t as fun as the faces that he came up with thirty-five years ago.