http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1998/04/28#too-much-information <blockquote><em>Facts don't do what I want them to</em></blockquote> Limits of human attention; filtering; searching; broad-catch; information overload (does it exist?); information underload ("everything I know is wrong!"); sensory overload; visual display; effects of visual displays on the thoughts of their users (e.g., do astronomers come to think that Saturn really does have the colors they assign to different UV frequencies?); use of senses other than sight. <a href="../selection.html">Do the practices of detector electronics suggest any general strategies</a>? <a href="simulations.html">Simulation</a>. <ul>See: <li>Stewart Brand, <cite>The Media Lab</cite> <li>Alfred Crosby, <cite>The Measure of Reality</cite> [Early history of quantification] <li>David Gelernter, <cite>Mirror Worlds</cite> <li>Gary King, <cite>A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data</cite> [<a href="../reviews/king-on-ecological-inference/">Review</a>] <li>Metropolis and Rota (eds.), <cite>A New Era in Computation</cite> <li><cite><a href="http://www.theonion.com/">The Onion</a>,</cite> <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3312/freedomfrominfo.html">Congress Passes Freedom from Information Act</a></cite> <li>Edward R. Tufte [How to make graphics which are actually worth botthering with] <ul> <li><cite>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information</cite> <li><cite>Visual Explanations</cite> </ul> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>A. Capocci, F. Slanina and Y.-C. Zhang, "Filtering information in a connected network," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0207362">cond-mat/0207362</a> [An interesting problem, even if it does <em>not</em> "introduce a new kind of information theory"] <li>Stephen Hall, <cite>Mapping the Next Millennium</cite> <li>Gregory Kramer (ed.), <cite>Auditory Display: Sonification, Audification, and Auditory Interfaces</cite> <li>National Research Council, <cite><a href="http://books.nap.edu/html/massdata/">Massive Data Sets</a></cite> <li>Pickover (ed.), <cite>Frontiers of Scientific Visualization.</cite> <li>Tufte, <cite>Envisioning Information</cite> <li>Pramod K. Varshney, <cite>Distributed Detection and Data Fusion</cite> <li>D. O. Whiteson and N. A. Naumann, "Support-vector regression as a signal discriminator in high-energy phyiscs," <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0925-2312(03)00366-7"><cite>Neurocomputing</cite> <strong>55</strong> (2003): 251--264</a> <li>John Willinsky, <cite>Technologies of Knowing: A Proposal for the Human Sciences</cite> <li>Richard Zippel, <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/rz/enotebook.htm">Electronic Notebooks</a> </ul> <blockquote><em>Too much information <br>Running through my brain <br>Too much information <br>Driving me insane</em></blockquote> (Alright, so that's the Police, not T. Heads. So sue me.)