two, reiterate

in consideration of the awesome spectacles of teasing subtle observation from the dataglut and poignantly providing insight thereby despite the dread specter of being transformed into thoroughly data-mined statistics (rather than the "mostly data-mined statistics, and sometimes, still, mere consumers, citizens or individuals" status we may enjoy today), offered by Deb Roy and Hans Rosling below the fold, i had to dust off the following manifesto:

vain algorithm
every statistic i am
aspires to break you

seriously, though, two awesome ted-talks:

1. MIT researcher Deb Roy set out to study language acquisition


2. hans rosling learned to visualize poverty statistics


as a matter of fact, you might just want to check out rosling's many entries at ted.com, or at the website of his own organization, gapminder.org ("for a fact-based world view"). don't know anything more about roy, but i can think of some entities that might want to license some of those sociocomputational methods. hence the haiku.