{"id":1595,"date":"2015-12-29T15:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2015-12-29T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T23:22:10","slug":"on-the-importance-of-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/on-the-importance-of-models\/","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Data, no matter how big, can only tell you what happened in the past. Unless you\u2019re a historian, you actually care about the future \u2014 what will happen, what could happen, what would happen if you did this or that. Exploring these questions will always require models. Let\u2019s get over &#8216;big data&#8217; \u2014 it\u2019s time for &#8216;big modeling&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">-Bret Victor (<a href=\"http:\/\/worrydream.com\/ClimateChange\/#media-debate\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/visualizing-data-that-doesnt-exist\/\">a similar point I made<\/a>\u00a0in 2008, about Graph Sketcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Data, no matter how big, can only tell you what happened in the past. Unless you\u2019re a historian, you actually care about the future \u2014 what will happen, what could happen, what would happen if you did this or that. Exploring these questions will always require models. Let\u2019s get over &#8216;big data&#8217; \u2014 it\u2019s time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/on-the-importance-of-models\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On the importance of models&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}