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This is Tom Pearson's internet scrap book.

Ingredients: Infographics, data viz, games, books, illustration, science, sci-fi, politics, yoga, music, cups of tea, ice cream, pizza, etc.

Software maker at the Beeb. All opinions are (or were for some brief moment) mine.

Any questions? (or responses or whatever)
Stuart Roseman on the shut down of Verifiable

We misestimated how hard the project was. Specifically we misestimated how hard the following issues would be:

  1. how many edge cases there are in any complex user interface
  2. how little patience users have for complex user interfaces
  3. how hard it is to find clean data and upload it
  4. how little interest people have in finding clean data and uploading it
  5. how much time and skill it requires to find clean data and upload it
  6. how much time and skill it requires to make a decent, thoughtful chart from that data
  7. how impossible it is to test complex user interfaces (we even convinced the funfx guy to help out and we still failed to develop a decent overall easy to run test framework)
  8. how fragile a complex flex based user interface is. fix one thing break another.

Yep, no one really believes those things until they’ve felt the pain themselves

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