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Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1960 book The Image of the City. I’ve described his approach here (March 2021) (where I also pick at the possible neurological underpinnings) so to briefly summarise:
Lynch puts forward five primitive elements: paths (e.g. streets); edges (e.g. uncrossable rivers); districts; nodes (e.g. street corners); landmarks (e.g. a recognisable building). Each element has an intuitive way to sketch it, as if on the back of a napkin.
Collecting My Thoughts About Notation and User Interfaces
interconnected.org
More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually [reduces the effectiveness of collective action](https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10095997?ref=404media.co). The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
404 Media
Often, people who don’t have access to the raw data expect one narrative to be drawn from data analysis. But the analysts actually in the data know that there are always many, many narratives in the data. Data is often opposite a single narrative. The narratives coming from the data are also never closed or complete, as data continuously arrives. But people want and attach themselves to a single narrative.
Note on Data Opposing Narrative
Josh Beckman
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