5 February

Our senses aren’t a window onto the world, they’re statistical outcomes of our immersion in the world. What’s interesting about that for me is that what we usually call ‘statistics’ are actually perceptions. Perceptions of collective phenomena. They’re no different to us seeing a flower, except we’re literally seeing social phenomena. Not - I’m sensing some stats ‘about’ society - I’m sensing society. As statistics gets richer and richer with its visualisations, I think this point will become more obvious.