http://theoystersgarter.com/2009/03/26/diversity-in-science-carnival-is-up/ Science served wet and salty Sun, 19 May 2013 03:22:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://theoystersgarter.com/2009/03/26/diversity-in-science-carnival-is-up/#comment-18051 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:06:35 +0000 http://theoystersgarter.com/?p=1443#comment-18051 This post is quite related to Matt’s Feb 4 cietzin scientist post (FYI Matt, I looked for your response on Seth’s blog but couldn’t find it).A comment on the McFedries excerpt, the phrase data exhaust is interesting / helpful as a visual metaphor but not accurate in terms of the relationship between our actions in the physical world and the quantification of those actions. The data that we are throwing off is not a byproduct of our actions it’s more like a history with (potentially) infinite granularity, right?

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