m.e.driscoll: data utopian: data visualization is a halfway house

medriscoll:

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This is a phrase that has stuck with me since Tim O’Reilly uttered some form of it two years ago. Tim was talking about online cartography, saying it’s not the maps that matter: it’s getting to our destination. Maps are a half-step short of that…

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    one really isn’t ‘bad data’,...does talk about it. enjoy.
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    To re-use an oft-used...Bible, “Visualizations without action
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