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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Learning to See Data
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/sunday-review/learning-to-see
Mr. Kohn has no training in computers or genetics, and he’s not there to
conduct art therapy classes. His role is to help the scientists with a
signature 21st-century problem: Big Data overload.
Advanced computing produces waves of abstract digital data that in many
cases defy interpretation; there’s no way to discern a meaningful pattern
in any intuitive way. To extract some order from this chaos, analysts need
to continually reimagine the ways in which they represent their data —
which is where Mr. Kohn comes in. He spent 10 years working with scientists
and knows how to pose useful questions. He might ask, for instance, What if
the data were turned sideways? Or upside down? Or what if you could click on
a point on the plotted data and see another dimension? |
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