Data as World Approximation
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
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?
From data to story