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Technically true, but you're leaving out any possible visual insights if you do that.
by TuringTest 4y ago
Technically true, but you're leaving out any possible visual insights if you do that.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoI don’t know. I feel that, for most people, it is the most visual way to see in many dimensions. That is, it’s an insight—rather than having to imagine a 5-d cube or whatever, it’s just a spreadsheet, no big deal.
- TuringTest 4y agoYes, but they see it as a data dump, without perceiving any spacial connections between the vectors represented by each row. The point of spatial reasoning is using our minds inner eye to visualize those connections intuitively, and the tabular data dump has nothing of it.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoBut I’d argue a 5d cube has even less use, as a mental model. Most people don’t know that each additional column is another dimension. People can imagine the sense of distance between varying points/entries in a table easier than a 5d cube, for instance. (Actually, that’s an empirical question)