I thought this video was extremely interesting because they were talking
about the beginning of data and how it evolved. They started off by talking
about how the first data was recorded through cartography and how the first map
was scratched into a piece of stone. To me that is crazy how much it had grown
to what we have today. How it went from drawing on a rock to the extensive
system we have today of google map, which they reference in the video. Also,
how the data that is provided for us is actually doing things and helping us
now, especially through google maps, because it navigates for us and follows us
as we go to help us get from one place to another.
The next part, about
knowing if it’s a tiger coming toward you, was also something that was thought
provoking to me. I was probably most interested in this part because it went
more along the lines of things I am interested in learning about. They talked
about how data visualization relates back to science. I have always been
interested in the sciences, so this was right up my ally. The way that the
human body analyzes the things we see and turns it into data is the very out
side of ordinary thinking. Most people do not sit back and think about
everything that happens subconsciously while going about life. However, as
brought up in the video, there are so many things that happen in our minds that
we are unaware of, like thinking if the grass is just moving or if it’s a tiger
that’s going to come and eat us. The amount of things that happen in our very
own minds that we don’t even know about is so crazy.
The other thing that we don’t
realize is how much of the data we take in comes from visualization. Just about
everything we see in a day can provide us with some sort of data, whether it be
using google maps, or reading the news or stocks, these things will be taking
into our mind and processed in the form of data. But not only that, it may also
come from seeing a certain group of people, which would then get processed as
data and your mind will tell you what kind of situation you are in for example.
The things we see are countless, therefore the amount of things our mind
processes in a day is unthinkable.
Overall, I felt that the
video was very straight forward in what they were saying and it was not
confusing. I agree with what the people were saying, probably because a lot of
what they were saying, especially about the mind processing visual things into
data, are things that I have thought about on my own. The only thing that
slightly confused me was one of the guys at the end when he talked about the
relationship between data and culture. The things he said were just confusing
to me for the most part.
