How the focus on applying algorithms to data is not the same as actually answering questions…. One of the most striking things about the “big data” world of today is the focus on mining data over answering…
My daughter has a book by Ed Young called Seven Blind Mice that retells an old Indian fable about perception, reality, truth and the dangers of clinging to one’s own beliefs too tightly. In the book Mr. Young ends the fable with the moral of the story, that “Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.”
This fable is the jumping off point for an insightful post on UXMatters.com titled “The Psychologist’s View of UX Design” by Dr. Susan Weinschenk.