Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
it's remarkable how much of this project has been about creating the right plots. makes me think about Latour -- the research is a manufacturing process for the plots (or at least for the software that generates the plots)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
(note that these are different plots at each stage, so a plot that dominated our headspace in November or December might be totally forgotten now that it's a reasonably stable building block, i've even deleted some of those plots from the code to declutter it)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
also how the creation of new kinds of plots or juxtapositions of data can feel like a research advance in its own right, because of how it opens up new questions and can get you unstuck (but it also can burn a lot of eng time, on the other hand)
Omar Rizwan
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@omar,
even plotting data we _already have on the laptop_ on the table, in physical context and to scale with the objects it's about, feels like it gives me a much better understanding a lot of the time, especially when it's real-time plots so i can get an interactive sense of how it responds as i do things irl