Working with numbers and people

@adamlofting

Working with numbers and human beings

@adamlofting

minutes ago

6,311,400

hours ago

105,190

days ago

4,321

months ago

144

years ago

12

decades ago

1.2

years ago

About twelve

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

>> 2014

Photo by John Cummings (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0]

Photo by John Cummings (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0]

8 ways to

Work with numbers

8 ways to

Work with numbersMake numbers work

for human beings

1. Teach zoom

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mozillaeu/10511749383/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mozillaeu/10511749383/in/photostream/

2. Gamblification works

place your bets

3. Create a sense of proportion

3,200wild tigers

4. Leave a trail to the source

5. Wax on, wax off

6. “percent” is an off-switch for the brain

“A 1,024% increase in new accounts”

7. Say what you see

8. Be the change...

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If you want them to do their homework, it might have the wrong effect

If you want to help someone to do something scary, the size of the

universe is a useful thing

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