
…a data systems approach doesn’t need to be so involved; it can be a simple act of word replacement. The next time you read a story with the word data in the headline, swap it out with data system. When you see a data visualization, think of it instead as a data system visualization. If the government proposes new policies around personal data, think about them instead as policies about people, and the data systems which they inhabit. Widening your thinking in this fashion will also allow yo…
…, and begin to decide how our data might tell its story to humans, possibility space goes critical. Each time you pick a chart type or colour palette or a line weight or an axis label, you’re trimming the possibility space of communication. Even before that, the choice of a medium for representation has already had a predestinatory effect…