warm data
“Data only tells you what was.
It doesn’t account for what could be.”
“When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might not be able to see what is lost, but we can definitely feel its absence.”
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
The issue with even this “trend” is that so much of cultural critique today remains observational.
Problematic considering the tiny narrative bubbles we’re each in.
Without layering any quantitative analysis into our stories, fads remain just reactions to reactions. Emptiness.
Liked Tweetstwitter.comAll information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.
Luke Turner • Metamodernist // Manifesto
Numbers tell you what. People tell you why.
Qualitative research – interviews, ethnography, case studies and so much more - puts lived experience at the centre of economics. It surfaces context, power, and meaning that models miss.
Interviews aren’t “just chats”; their purpose, style, and interpretation... See more
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wtf is: researching by katarina — https://www.are.na/wtf-is-living/wtf-is-research
instagram.comNew research suggests that AI is reducing complexity, or at least our experience of it. A recent study, The Platonic Representation Hypothesis , shows that as AI models become more powerful, they form increasingly similar statistical representations of the world. The result is that we are effectively simplifying our understanding of the world and... See more
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The power in softness
Exploring the importance of soft data alongside hard data, embracing complexity and using personal data to understand and reclaim oneself, with a focus on emotions and human experiences.
LinkIt teaches them that data is created, not found; and that creating it well demands humanity, rather than objectivity