Making Sense of Raw Data: A Labor of Love - Beth Noveck

[yourmomdidsayyourean]

@16242T Trekker or Trekkie?

[RealityZealot]

Hopefully there are many more people like her involved in government.

[truvelocity]

We need people who embrace the graph, love the pie, and enjoy the chart. Kudos to those people... Excuse me while I go shoot myself from extreme boredom.

[ananiasacts]

Who loves data more than WolframAlpha? Odd she didn't mention them.

[Andybaby]

Absolutely no idea wtf this is about.

[marsCubed]

Layering an island in space is....

going to be ugly, buggy as heck; probably

scripts will be running which use old coords. and laggy.

SL doesn't have any of the nodes one would want to reduce the lag.

No IFS to LOD.

It would also be difficult to see, mess up lighting etc.

Non builders who have such ideas are funny.

Do it all in the same space and use a client touch sensor to switch between historical views.

It will be much easier to do and will preserve the look and functionality.

[LokiClock]

@marsCubed It's the thought that counts,

[marsCubed]

@LokiClock

It is only a good idea when there is more than one idea. That way we get to compare & can thus make value judgements.

Studies and sketches are central to the creative process.

Putting a dial into the user HUD would be much more elegant, it could 'scroll' through island history.

Because all is in place, development could be seen like an animation.

& there would be no lag, fewer bugs nodes would be reused from cache,

layers would also change the character of the place, seems odd

[LokiClock]

@marsCubed Yeah. But you're preachin' to the choir.

[marsCubed]

@LokiClock

"you're preachin' to the choir" I do not recall telling any choir boys to pull down their pants.

(j/k) choir, priests, pope etc...