A few notes, loosely categorized.
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Saturday 4 June 2011
The Datablog: Raw Data Hot Off the Press
Venture here with caution.
The odd thing about ethnographic data is that they are strangely compelling, whether or not they have meaning or importance. These are individuals's stories, their faces, their ideas. We naturally identify with them, we want to listen to them, we want to meet their needs. The problem is that the ideas and needs of any particular individual can be ambiguous and often conflict with those of another.
The only way to make sense of these data with all their ambiguity and conflicts and to make good decisions about what we need to design and how we need to design it is to consider each and every bit of data dat in the context of all of the rest of the data. It is the product of this kind of analysis and consideration that you'll find on the blog's home page, but not here. You will find there some attempt to analyze what the data mean and their implications for design, but not here.
Here you will find the raw data, unanalyzed and uninterpreted. Take them for what they are. You will do well to find insight in them. You will do well to discover ideas. You will do well to get to know people you may never have known before. But you will do best if you can do all of that and still not to be seduced by any of it in isolation.
Venture here with caution.
The odd thing about ethnographic data is that they are strangely compelling, whether or not they have meaning or importance. These are individuals's stories, their faces, their ideas. We naturally identify with them, we want to listen to them, we want to meet their needs. The problem is that the ideas and needs of any particular individual can be ambiguous and often conflict with those of another.
The only way to make sense of these data with all their ambiguity and conflicts and to make good decisions about what we need to design and how we need to design it is to consider each and every bit of data dat in the context of all of the rest of the data. It is the product of this kind of analysis and consideration that you'll find on the blog's home page, but not here. You will find there some attempt to analyze what the data mean and their implications for design, but not here.
Here you will find the raw data, unanalyzed and uninterpreted. Take them for what they are. You will do well to find insight in them. You will do well to discover ideas. You will do well to get to know people you may never have known before. But you will do best if you can do all of that and still not to be seduced by any of it in isolation.
Venture here with caution.
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