Naomi B. Robbins

Naomi Robbins (née Bograd), also known by her initials NBR, is an American statistician, expert in data visualization, graphical data presentation consultant and author. She is the author of Creating More Effective Graphs, a reference book on the graphical representation of data.

Education, early life and career Naomi Bograd was born to Samuel Bograd and his wife.

Robbins did her undergraduate studies at Bryn Mawr College, and graduated in 1958 with honors in mathematics. By 1961, when she joined the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, she was already a member of the technical staff of Bell Labs. In 1962, she earned a master's degree from Cornell University with a thesis On a sequential process inspection scheme with an application to a detection problem. She later received a teaching assistantship at Cornell.