A layered concoction of ideas from different thought groups.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Flowing Data Viz Picks
The best data visualizations of the year from flowingdata.com. I don't know how practical many of these visualizations are for actual data exploration, but they are such good eye candy. I sometimes yearn to have such interesting data to play with.
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here... I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell. It doesn't frighten me.
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