Bret Victor @worrydream 2016-12-23
100% agree with @MaxCRoser about limitations of stories. But stats are v. limiting too (e.g. Seeing Like A State) 1/
https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts/…
Stories & stats are two extremes, both myopic: one too specific, one too general. Neither can represent the truth of a complex situation. 2/
But stories & stats are relics of the paper medium. The dynamic medium allows a “ladder of abstraction” b/w them. 3/
http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/…
I believe that the deepest understandings will come from a new form of “reading” which is actively moving up and down such a ladder. 4/
Seth Bullock @_SethBullock_ 2016-12-23
sometimes called “bridging explanations”? we need more tools 4 building these - to move beyond fetishy predictions&descriptions
ver que pasa @vqp 2017-01-02
what a gem!