What does this mean? Can it also imply that visualizations are more trusted than they should be? I have only been betrayed by GPS/Maps a couple of times in a long history of using them. By my own navigation skills many more times.
Been a long time promoter of visualization of data and process. But have also always cautioned that visualizations can be a means of delivering confirmation bias via a clever picture. An assumed narrative of truth.
Note also that in the example below only part of it is a map. It is an assistant giving directions, a different thing. So does this means we need to take different kinds of cautions with step by step directions? What does that look like? I point back to my post on 'alerts', which if done intelligently can give us early warning we have gone astray.
Running in Circles: Why Our GPS Devices Can Betray Us in UnDark
Our unshakeable faith in maps — digital or otherwise — has its roots in the cartographic revolution.
05.31.2019 / By M.R. O’Connor ...
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