NAOMI B. ROBBINS, PhD, is President of NBR, a leader in consulting and training in graphical data presentation. A recognized expert in the field, she has spoken on the subject of creating effective graphs at universities including Columbia University and McGill University, professional societies such as the Society of Women Engineers and the Society for Technical Communication, and corporations and organizations that include Lockheed Martin, Brookfield Zoo, and the United Nations. She is an officer of the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association and has served the New Jersey Chapter of the ASA as President. She was a statistician at Bell Laboratories before forming NBR.