Philosophical
What if the most important information can't be measured?
When we measure something, we tend to isolate it. How many calories? What's the test score? What's the GDP? But Nora Bateson points out that the relationships between things carry information too. And that kind of information gets lost the moment you put it in a spreadsheet.
Information about the interrelationships that integrate a complex system is warm data.— Nora Bateson
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The thinker
Systems Thinker & Filmmaker
Nora Bateson is a filmmaker, writer, and founder of the International Bateson Institute. She coined the term 'warm data' to describe the relational information that exists between the parts of a complex system.
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