February 2009
8 posts
My Fiction-Based Reality
Any doubts that my conception of the world is based on fiction were shattered this week. Not just fiction. Science fiction. It seems that a significant dimension of my worldview is rooted in multiple teenage reads of Robert Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love.
I picked up the book again after a thirty year hiatus and was tickled, bemused and eventually humbled by the correspondence between the...
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Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics and VizThink
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Original author uncertain. Popularized by Mark Twain
Tom Wujec’s “Making Meaning: Why Visualizations Work” presentation knocked my socks off this afternoon. It was an exhilarating bullet-train ride through the system of neurological processes that transform sensory input into our mental models of...
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“All tweets tweet twitter — no tweet has its own meaning”
– Paraphrase of Marshall McLuhan quote from The Book of Probes