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Visual Analytics - An Interaction of Sight and Thought - JMP

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External aids can augment memory.<br />

To compare facts, you must hold them in working memory simultaneously. Because we<br />

can hold so little in working memory at any one time, however, to do analysis effectively,<br />

we must rely on external aids to memory. This is an ideal job for a computer. Even a<br />

piece <strong>of</strong> paper that you jot down notes on to keep track <strong>of</strong> information as you’re<br />

analyzing data is an external memory aid that is quite powerful despite being low-tech.<br />

A computer running properly designed s<strong>of</strong>tware, however, can augment our ability to<br />

think about information much better than pencil <strong>and</strong> paper.

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