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Peel Back the Curtain on Data and Systems

Peel Back the Curtain on Data and Systems

An essay by Jer Thorp exploring the authored choices, constraints, and human decisions behind data visualizations and algorithms.

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    “Before ogling a beautiful data visualization, it is worth remembering they are all constructed artifacts. No matter how objective they look, the author made choices at each stage -- what data was and wasn't collected? For what purpose? This wonderful essay by Jer Thorpe makes bare some of those choices.”

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