Articles - Data and thinking - need for ease of understanding

These are 2 articles about the need to make data easier to understand, and enable people to think about a problem whilst examining data.

Why Data Will Never Replace Thinking - by Justin Fox - October 4, 2012

http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2012/10/why-data-will-never-replace-thinking.html

"Bayesian approach to probability, in which we all have our own subjective ideas about how things are going to pan out, but follow the same straightforward rules in revising those assessments as we get new information. It's a process that uses data to refine our thinking. But it doesn't work without some thinking first."
We don't need more data scientists - just make data easier to use -  by Scott Brave, Baynote Dec 22, 2012

http://gigaom.com/2012/12/22/we-dont-need-more-data-scientists-just-simpler-ways-to-use-big-data/

Sure, more data scientists would be great. But Scott Brave, of Baynote, says the better solution is to create analytics products that are so easy to use that you don’t even need a data scientist.

Also this article and Radio 4 programme is about the need for thinking when learning to code.

Tom Armitage:The Coded World - Radio 4 available online - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pg54z - Computer code frees us to think in new ways.


BBC News - Viewpoint: Computer code frees us to think in new ways http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20764273 - "learning to code" - a hot topic in the media.