Not a Predictive Visualization
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© 2019 Charlene Brown
Computers are capable of pattern recognition, trend analysis, extrapolation and prediction if the task can be formulated and solved mathematically.
But surprises – Black Swans or Wild Cards such as Alicorns – can alter the data. When that happens, computerized analytics must yield to common sense, imagination, heuristic exploration of possibilities and visualization.
I’ll write more about these and other surprises in a blog post about my recent Future Forecasting class at the University of Victoria.
