Wisdom
Wisdom is knowledge and insight applied with sound judgment and ethical consideration to guide decisions and actions.
Data Storytelling with Altair and AI
Wisdom is knowledge enriched with ethics that supports action and suggests subsequent steps.
- How it is used
- Turns contextualized findings into audience actions and proposed next steps within a DIKW data story.
- How deep it goes
- Defines wisdom, explains its judgment-based components, and develops calls to action into categorized next-step designs.
- Examples
- Uses pet-event advertising, Portugal tourism investment, population-growth strategies, and fake-news titles.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Altair and generative AI to add evidence-aware calls to action and next-step options to charts.
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The Creative Programmer
Wisdom is a coherent understanding that emerges when meaningful paths connect multiple insights.
- How it is used
- Frames personal understanding and software collaboration as processes for connecting insights into a meaningful path.
- How deep it goes
- Defines wisdom through a data-to-insight progression but leaves external influences and feedback as possible additions.
- Examples
- Uses foreign-key relationships, pair programming, lively discussion, and a collect-and-connect-dots metaphor.
- What you can do after
- Practice collecting input with others and personally connecting it into meaningful insights.
Related concepts
- domain knowledgeproduced by · Domain knowledge is specialized understanding of the concepts, facts, practices, relationships, and constraints of a particular subject area.
- call-to-actionuses · A call to action is a statement or interface element that explicitly prompts an audience or user to perform a desired action.
- good judgementhas part · Good judgment is the ability to make sound decisions by evaluating evidence, context, risks, benefits, and consequences.
- DIKW hierarchypart of · The DIKW hierarchy is a conceptual framework organizing data, information, knowledge, and wisdom as progressively interpreted forms of understanding.
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