"The drawing shows me at a glance what would be spread over ten pages in a book." (Ivan Turgenev, 1862) [2]
"Sometimes, half a dozen figures will reveal, as with a lighting-flash, the importance of a subject which ten thousand labored words with the same purpose in view, had left at last but dim and uncertain." (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi", 1883)
"One good picture is worth many pages of written description." (William Sproston Caine, 1891) [2]
"One look is worth a thousand words" (Kathleen Caffyn, 1903)
"Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." (Arthur Brisbane, The Post-Standard, 1911)
"One Look Is Worth A Thousand Words" ([advertisement] 1913)
"A picture is worth ten thousand words. If you can’t see the truth in these pictures you are among the vast majority that must learn only by experience." (Arthur Brisbane, 1915)
"One picture is worth ten thousand words." (Frederick R Barnard, Printer’s Ink, 1921)
"One Picture Worth Ten Thousand Words" ([Chinese proverb] 1927)
"In many instances, a picture is indeed worth a thousand words. To make this true in more diverse circumstances, much more creative effort is needed to pictorialize the output from data analysis. Naive pictures are often extremely helpful, but more sophisticated pictures can be both simple and even more informative." (John W Tukey & Martin B Wilk, "Data Analysis and Statistics: An Expository Overview", 1966)
"Graphic charts are ways of presenting quantitative as well as qualitative information in an efficient and effective visual form. Numbers and ideas presented graphically are often more easily understood. remembered. and integrated than when they are presented in narrative or tabular form. Descriptions. trends. relationships, and comparisons can be made more apparent. Less time is required to present and comprehend information when graphic methods are employed. As the old truism states, 'One picture is worth a thousand words.'" (Robert Lefferts, "Elements of Graphics: How to prepare charts and graphs for effective reports", 1981)
"One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word." (Edward Abbey, "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside", 1984)
"A picture may be worth a thousand words, a formula is worth a thousand pictures." (Edsger Dijkstra, [conference at ETH Zurich] 1994)
"A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words." (John Dunning, "The Bookman's Wake", 1995)
"A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice." (Paul Fleischman, "Seek", 2001)
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures." (Daniel H Pink, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future", 2005)
"The amount of information rendered in a single financial graph is easily equivalent to thousands of words of text or a page-sized table of raw values. A graph illustrates so many characteristics of data in a much smaller space than any other means. Charts also allow us to tell a story in a quick and easy way that words cannot." (Brian Suda, "A Practical Guide to Designing with Data", 2010)
"Visual reports exploit the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words and, in particular, for many tasks a picture is more useful than a large table of numbers." (Stephen G Eick, "Graph Drawing for Data Analytics" [in "Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization"] , 2013)
"Graphs can help us interpret data and draw inferences. They can help us see tendencies, patterns, trends, and relationships. A picture can be worth not only a thousand words, but a thousand numbers. However, a graph is essentially descriptive - a picture meant to tell a story. As with any story, bumblers may mangle the punch line and the dishonest may lie." (Gary Smith, "Standard Deviations", 2014)
"The caption should explain what is shown, possibly also giving the data source. Captions should be detailed enough that the graphic can pretty well stand on its own. Longer is usually better than shorter. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you need at least some words to describe and explain it." (Antony Unwin, "Graphical Data Analysis with R", 2015)
"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are readable, interpretable, meaningful, or relevant." (Kristen Sosulski, "Data Visualization Made Simple: Insights into Becoming Visual", 2018)
"A recurring theme in machine learning is combining predictions across multiple models. There are techniques called bagging and boosting which seek to tweak the data and fit many estimates to it. Averaging across these can give a better prediction than any one model on its own. But here a serious problem arises: it is then very hard to explain what the model is (often referred to as a 'black box'). It is now a mixture of many, perhaps a thousand or more, models." (Robert Grant, "Data Visualization: Charts, Maps and Interactive Graphics", 2019)
"'A picture is worth a thousand words' is definitely true, and graphs can help you tell a story about your data that would otherwise go untold with only numerical summaries and statistics. While inferential statistics and effect size measures can help us draw relatively reliable conclusions from our data, graphs and visualizations can help make the scientific findings accessible to virtually anyone, even with minimal coursework in statistics or data science." (Daniel J Denis, "Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate Statistics Using R: Quantitative Tools for Data Analysis and Data Science, 2020)
"Although a picture may be worth a thousand words, a single static picture is in most cases insufficient for a valid analysis and for understanding of a complex subject. It is usual that an analyst needs to see different aspects or parts of data and look at the data from different perspectives. This means that the analyst needs to interact with the data and with the system that generates visual displays of the data: select data components and subsets for viewing, select and tune visualization techniques, transform the views, transform the data, and so on." (Natalia Andrienko et al, "Visual Analytics for Data Scientists", 2020)
"A picture really can be worth a thousand words, and human beings are adept at extracting useful information from visual presentations. Modern data analysis increasingly relies on graphical presentations to uncover meaning and convey results." (Robert I Kabacoff, "R in Action: Data analysis and graphics with R and Tidyverse", 2022)
"A good metaphor is worth a thousand pictures." (Anon)
"As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture." (John McCarthy [source])
References:
[1] Wikipedia (2024) A picture is worth a thousand words [link]
[2] Quote Investigator (2022) A Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words [link]
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