Thomas Lumley • 11/14/2024

Brute force and ignorance

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The article revisits a 1986 Data Expo dataset, a large artificial matrix designed to hide an 'Easter egg' structure. It contrasts the difficulty of detecting this pattern with 1980s visualization tools against the relative ease using modern high-resolution displays and simple R plotting techniques, arguing that brute-force graphical exploration can often reveal insights.

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