In a time when self-tracking apps are proliferating, and when the amount of personal data we collect about ourselves is increasing all the time, we should actively add personal and contextual meaning to our tracking. We shouldn’t expect an app to tell us something about ourselves without any active effort on our part; we have to actively engage in making sense of our own data in order to interpret those numbers according to our personal story, behaviors and routine.
We should experiment with how to visualize uncertainty, possible errors and imperfections in our data.
Make We have to bring data to life — human life.
In a time when self-tracking apps are proliferating, and when the amount of personal data we collect about ourselves is increasing all the time, we should actively add personal and contextual meaning to our tracking. We shouldn’t expect an app to tell us something about ourselves without any active effort on our part; we have to actively engage in making sense of our own data in order to interpret those numbers according to our personal story, behaviors and routine.
We should experiment with how to visualize uncertainty, possible errors and imperfections in our data.
https://medium.com/@giorgialupi/data-humanism-the-revolution-will-be-visualized-31486a30dbfb#.zbit6l8fr