Sunday, September 20, 2009

scatterplots and our lives

Any sort of graph, people, especially teenagers, are going to avoid. They're boring, uneccesary, and never contain any information that anyone could ever care about. At least, that's what I thought. Graphs were outdated, relics of the pre-technology/cellphones/internet/everything era. However, I found out on friday, that's not not true. If applied right, they could be fun, they could be somewhat inportant, and they could possibly hold my attention for more than eight seconds.
Ms. Jalilvand showed us a graph from a TED conference that really impressed me. It was interesting, and because it was so intriguing, I learned from it. It allowed me to look at something I had never taken much thought to in a differnent light. What amazed me even more was that something as mundane (or at least what i previously thought was mundane) made me realize that.

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