What was that old saw: in God we trust, everyone else bring data? Data and information are the bedrock of modern society. Money, numbers, bits; however you count the beads, it’s data everywhere. Yet, there’s no real understanding of data among scientists and scholars, let alone the general public. Even the experts view information from within their specialization — let’s say machine learning or information visualization — than an understanding of the science as a whole. Imagine a world in which people learned numerical simulations for space travel without learning classical mechanics. Physics is a great science because it’s basic concepts — not it’s foundations, but the concepts that all physicists need to know in order to apply their methods to problems in the world — are drilled into physicists from mechanics 101 onward.
Two Dimensions of Data: Newsletter #25
Two Dimensions of Data: Newsletter #25
Two Dimensions of Data: Newsletter #25
What was that old saw: in God we trust, everyone else bring data? Data and information are the bedrock of modern society. Money, numbers, bits; however you count the beads, it’s data everywhere. Yet, there’s no real understanding of data among scientists and scholars, let alone the general public. Even the experts view information from within their specialization — let’s say machine learning or information visualization — than an understanding of the science as a whole. Imagine a world in which people learned numerical simulations for space travel without learning classical mechanics. Physics is a great science because it’s basic concepts — not it’s foundations, but the concepts that all physicists need to know in order to apply their methods to problems in the world — are drilled into physicists from mechanics 101 onward.