> How much is enough? While many consider this the most central existential question of our acquisitive age, it also underlies many real-world practical decisions that we must make...
> It also illustrates the omnipresent, existential issue “how much is #enough?” ..We could have gone further. When are you done? Doing exercises like this one helps to teach us the impor-tant lesson that, in any serious investigation, you are never done, youjust run out of time—obesa cantavit.*
#HowardWainer in _ #PicturingAnUncertainWorld _ sounds like 老子 LaoZi #知足 #足るを知る

Rereading a print out of Howard Wainer's _Understanding Graphs and Tables_, it's what had me searching murder rates and El Salvador. Wainer writes key phrases I should remember: an "orienting attitude", a "redesign task must first try to develop and understanding of purpose..."
http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS397Z/Midterm/wainer_table_design.pdf
#HowardWainer #TableDesign #DataPresentation #GraphsAndTables

#HowardWainer's "The Most Dangerous Equation"^1s got me to Kelly's Equation. One page^2 linked to Wikipedia's "#HedonicTreadmill"^3. Researchers see Primo Levi's insight too!?
> The process of hedonic adaptation is often conceptualized as a treadmill, since no matter how hard one tries to gain an increase in happiness, one will remain in the same place. [Once their bellies are full]
^1 https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-most-dangerous-equation
^2 https://theory.stanford.edu/~blynn/pr/kelly.html
^3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
@bsmall2@tiksi.net
#KellysEquation

> In the late 1990s the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began supporting small schools on a broad-ranging, intensive, national basis. By 2001, the Foundation had given grants to education projects totaling approximately $1.7 billion... There are many claims made about the advantages of smaller schools, but I will focus here on just one...
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-most-dangerous-equation
#HowardWainer #TheMostDangerousEquation #BillGates #GatesFail #deMoivresEquation #uspol
🧵

> The first rule of table construction is to:
> Order the rows and columns in a way that makes sense. We are almost never interested in “Austria First.”
...
> Round-a lot! This is so for three reasons:
> a. Humans cannot understand more than two digits very easily.
> b. We can almost never justify more than two digits of accuracy statistically.
> c. We almost never care about accuracy of more than two digits.

https://diasp.org/posts/12734726
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1176346
#HowardWainer #DataOrder

> "Getting information from a table is like extracting sunlight from a cucumber."
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1165236
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED387520.pdf
#HowardWainer quoting #FarquharAndFarquhar #Farquhar from 1891 #SunlightFromACucumber #DataTables

> This table of fisheries data made it easy to appreciate functional programming with sort. You are free to create a function that will.. order.. the data. It's simple to adhere to Howard Wainer's rules for “table construction.”..
> The first rule of table construction is to:
1. Order the rows and columns in a way that makes sense. We are almost never interested in “Austria First.” #HowardWainer
https://write.as/bs2lr/minamata-fish-market-decline-1950-1956
#crab #crabs #racket #RacketPlot #DataVisualization #Minamata

More commentary on DrRacket Visualization work and Data Tables (with input from Howard Wainer)
https://ruhrspora.de/posts/2986945
#HowardWainer #Farquhar #DataTable

Another Data Visualization for understanding Minamata and Learning Racket.

https://write.as/bs2lr/minamata-fish-market-decline-1950-1956

#DrRacket #Racket #RacketPlot #DataVisualization #DougHoyt #HowardWainer #Minamata #MasazumiHarada #原田正純 #水俣病 #漁業 #Fishery