The Curveball

I remember vividly the moment I understood the Bell Curve for the first time; astounded and amused, I found the academic world on its head with a curve simply representing complex truths that simpletons could understand. Previously I had thought of it as an artifact, a fossil of abstract thinking by some theorist somewhere in time. Dry and buried, and who cares.



It was a same kind of epiphany that has driven me lately; grooving on the fine line between structured and unstructured information. And whats the difference anyway if you boil it all down to 1s and 0s. But then again, who said those are meaningful anyway?


I drew up a little diagram which may be an anchoring point for further study someday (the real kind where you hunker down with colleagues and books and have an oral). It has to do with the relationship of data produced with the whole complex circumstances and frameworks produced by human intent and motivation. If we mean to structure a thought, then that thought can be articulated, the activity can be codified, the processes can be externalised and ordained, the information collected, processed, reamalgamated, stored and the record disposed. If there ever has been an archaeologist of data processes, I tip the pith hat and run down the trail.

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