The world changed faster than Statistics. These days, anyone with a computer can analyze data sets, which is awesome. The problem is that the Statistics books a

The world changed faster than Statistics. These days, anyone with a computer can analyze data sets, which is awesome. The problem is that the Statistics books are not designed for the masses, and the experts are concerned with technicalities that programmers, for instance, couldn't care less. If Zed helps brings Statistics to the programmers community, I guess that can only be a good thing... The good news is that there seems to be an opportunity here: write Statistics for the non-statistician. Not everyone who needs Statistics can take 2 years off to learn it. Back in the 1970s, Digital Signal Processing was an advanced grad course... now it's a basic undergrad course. Maybe Statistics will go the same way, becoming more and more prevalent, and less and less ivory tower.