Calling Bullshit 6.5: Glass Slippers
We propose the term “glass slipper” to describe to data visualizations in which the designer has taken a beautiful data design intended for very specific situations, and tried to shoehorn entirely inappropriate types of data into it. Carl considers examples including a periodic table of data science, a subway map of corporate acquisitions, a phylogenetic tree of internet marketing, and numerous Venn diagrams.
May 3, 2017
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
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Department of Biology www.biology.washington.edu/
Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7
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Versions of the Cinderella story go back to antiquity. It's likely that our English version of this story has an implausible glass slipper as a result of mistranslation from French: verre=glass and fourrure=fur. In spoken French, "une pantoufle de fourrure" (a fur slipper) might easily be misheard as "une pantoufle de verre" (an glass slipper).
The Spectrum of User Experience Venn infographic @6:14 looks to me like a colourful zen-like primate.
Jevin is so handsome
Sounds like a logical fallacy of moving the target?😉