The term “landscape” has something powerfully seductive about it. The imagery it evokes is so appealing, that further thought can be completely suspended. — Jones (1995) Seductive indeed: use story-related data on a contour plot to identify clusters or loci of desirable and undesirable responses; look at plausible pathways across the “topography” between these loci;Continue reading “Narrative Landscapes, Part I:
The emperor has no clothes that fit”
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Narrative Landscapes, Part I:
Statistics in the Triad, Part VI: The Story as Unit of Observation
If you had asked me a year ago to identify the primary unit of observation in a SenseMaker project, I would have said, without much hesitation, it’s the story, of course. When I started writing Part IV in this series on Confidence Regions, however, I had to revisit that question. I knew what was typicallyContinue reading “Statistics in the Triad, Part VI: The Story as Unit of Observation”
Tom Brady and the Intrinsic Narrative
A few Sunday evenings ago, I watched Super Bowl LI, the climactic game of the 2016-17 season of the National Football League. With the loss and exit by the Dallas Cowboys earlier in the playoffs, I had no emotional stake in the outcome of the game, but at least some of the TV commercials might beContinue reading “Tom Brady and the Intrinsic Narrative”