Friam

Re: Huh? What is this?

Posted by George Duncan-2 on Dec 01, 2020; 5:14pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Huh-What-is-this-tp7599690p7599696.html

Worst? Hey, there must be mammoth competition for that slot! Here, the numbering of counties has no information content--geography north to south? Nada.

George Duncan

Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
georgeduncanart.com

See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

Land: (505) 983-6895

Mobile: (505) 469-4671

My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.

"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."

From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn.

"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 9:35 AM Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Below is this morning's front page of the Santa Fe New Mexican. It is obviously trying to give the virus story big play. But I can't figure out what in hell this map and all its appendages are trying to tell me. I might be missing something big time, but shouldn't this be nominated as the worst data visualization of the year?

============================================
Tom Johnson - tom@...
Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)
NM Foundation for Open Government
Check out It's The People's Data
============================================
- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/

- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam
un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/