Chernoff faces are an unusually human way of representing statistical data. Herman Chernoff, who conceived of them, died on July 6, 2026. Read an appreciation of him from the Stanford University department of statistics (where he was for many years on the faculty).
We have many times celebrated the wonder and power of Chernoff faces, in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research, in the Improbable Research podcast, and elsewhere. Read and or listen to some of that, if you like.
