Sure Nick
We need to move into the visual world. The same issue you mention is a
huge problem in all forms of engineering / architecture as well let
alone plants. The data is lousy period when it goes through immutable
text variations but at least with the tactile we should be facing in the
same direction more fun here http://www.ideapete.com/gwendolyn.htm
Add the famous we only see 2D and its ripe for disaster
To err is human to really screw up you need text and a computer
( : ( : pete
Peter Baston
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Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All --
Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data? There are
increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and
(see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful
by ordinary standards and yet there is so much of it that it seems a crime
not to try to make use of it. So Sally writes in to say that her morning
glories are in bloom in April when what she means is her pansies. Her
neighbor gets the pansies right but screws up on the tithonia. Is there
any way to add this all up and get something?
thoughts?
nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
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