And was just thinking about it the other day. I had a bug aggregating sleep-data from an iPhone, which comes in the form of sleep-samples.
I was trying to fix it, both by prodding Claude Code to fix the problem, and looking at debug logs of the sleep-samples, but we weren't getting anywhere. I asked Claude Code to graph the samples, and BAM, saw it right away. (the problem was that HealthKit returns you sleep-samples from ALL devices, not just the priority one)
Maybe not exactly the same thing as Anscombe/Tufte were getting at, but I was reminded of it, and the value of visualising data.
I meditate a good bit, an hour a day, and it doesn't stop thoughts arising, so I've had some time to think about this.
My guess is, it's just an evolutionarily useful thing, for your brain to keep pinging you about various things.
It doesn't mean of course that meditation is not useful. But you want to have control over these thoughts. Without a meditative practice, it's all too easy to allow your consciousness to be consumed by these impulses (which can lead you astray).
And was just thinking about it the other day. I had a bug aggregating sleep-data from an iPhone, which comes in the form of sleep-samples.
I was trying to fix it, both by prodding Claude Code to fix the problem, and looking at debug logs of the sleep-samples, but we weren't getting anywhere. I asked Claude Code to graph the samples, and BAM, saw it right away. (the problem was that HealthKit returns you sleep-samples from ALL devices, not just the priority one)
Maybe not exactly the same thing as Anscombe/Tufte were getting at, but I was reminded of it, and the value of visualising data.