Abstract
The Achilles’ heel of societal models, nearly universally, is their inability to convey their computational results to the human user. Data sets can be enormous and diverse, the uncertainties large and subtle, the dependencies complex and convoluted, and the products of the estimates often obscure and insubstantial and, therefore, difficult to convey and contrast. This chapter is about making the “invisible” visible.
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Jonker, D., Wright, W. (2010). Visualization and Comprehension. In: Kott, A., Citrenbaum, G. (eds) Estimating Impact. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6235-5_10
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