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[homework] Reading & experience report #47

Closed beijn closed 1 year ago

beijn commented 1 year ago

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beijn commented 1 year ago

Experience Report: Data Journey on Something Politically Relevant

This is purely human text.

Visualizing data is a powerfull tool to implant ideas in peoples heads. Sensing and understanding by one self is much more transformative than just telling results (though still weaker than shared narration).

These were my scrapped ideas

In the end I went for the classic Happiness, Economic Growth and Environmental Damaging. As outlined in the notebook I’m quite suspicious of the data from the Footprint Network and dependents like Happy Planet Index, because of the paralysing or counterproductive conclusions from it and the limited data availability and interoperability. While data and visualizations are a powerfull tool to make people understand, the effort can quickly go into the other direction. Narratives are much more transformative. Narratives must be backed by appropriately differentiated analysis to not be propaganda if they are wrong. But doing this analysis requires collaboration and understanding of society and a FAIR foundation for reproducible, open and easy data and research access.