[TriPython] RTA All Graphs Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful at RENCI April 19

[Chris Calloway]

On 4/1/16 12:14 PM, Francois Dion wrote:
>     Clever repurposing of George Box's "all models are wrong [...] how wrong
>     do they have to be to not be useful". I seem to remember that John Tukey
>     had a similar saying on the display of data.

Yeah, Xan Gregg references John Tukey by name in this talk.

>     On the use of "graph" to talk about data-based displays, I don't know that
>     it is weird from a stats, operations research or graphical design
>     background. It is more of an issue from a discrete math or computing
>     science where we tend to think in terms of graph = networks.

All of which are in the realm of "data science." Kind of like how the 
word "postmodern" means entirely different things in different branches 
of arts and humanities. Between choreography and architecture, almost 
opposite meanings (cue Frank Zappa quote).

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway, Applications Analyst
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