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Data BricolageHow Tableau Facilitates the Adjacent Possible
Dan Murray, InterWorksTableau Fringe Festival
October 5, 2015
BricolageAbstractions
Adjacent PossibilitiesVisual Memory
Bricolage \brē-kō-ˈläzh\
Bricolage is a French loanword that means the process of improvisation in a human endeavor.
Works or products of DIY endeavors.
Writing & Bricolage
Pablo PicassoVisual bricolage
Picasso’s abstract reductionism
Stuart Kauffman
Adjacent Possible
1st order combinations
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
Stephane TarnierChicken incubator
to
Childincubator
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
Adjacent Possible“We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations...
But ideas are works of bricolage
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
Tableau = Data Bricolage
Mechanisms for facilitating combinations of ideas, data and images.
Tableau Public
Creates adjacent possibilities
Tableau Public
Data Bricolage
Adjacent Possibilities = Data Bricolage
What else?
Method of Loci
The oldest known mnemonic strategy.
Grandmaster of MemoryMemorize 1,000 random digits in an hour
Memorize the order of 10 decks of cards in an hour
Memorize the order of one deck of cards < 2 minutes
Grandmasters by Country
Why Tableau?
Enables data bricolage
Facilitate the adjacent possible
Provides spatial memory triggers
Reports
The data you know
Analysis
The data you know you need to know more about.
Discovery
The data you don’t know you need to know more about.
Three Kinds of Data
The data you know (reports)
The data you know you need to know more about (analysis)
The data you don’t know you need to know (discovery)
Recap• Data Bricolage• Remove the non-essential• Memory is visual• Three kinds of data
Tableau = Data Bricolage
Tableau Public = Adjacent Possibilities
Data Visualization = Simplified abstraction
Thank you!Thank you!
Dan Murray, InterWorks2nd Edition