Data as World Approximation

From data to story

I like to think of data visualization as a story. The main character is the user, and we can go two ways. A story of charts and graphs might read a lot like a textbook; however, a story with context, relationships, interactions, patterns, and explanations reads like a novel.

Jeff Hammerbacher • Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Write data as textbook or novel?

Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.

Clayton M. Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Data is a type of model for the phenomenon

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