The Information Adventure Begins

We live in a world of information. The trouble is, it's encrypted.

In the western universe, we are exposed to over three thousand advertising messages a day, each encrypted with hundreds of subconscious pieces of information within them. Our brains can store approximately one thousand terabytes of information and can process over twelve hundred megapixels of visual information a second.

So we experience a lot of the world's information, but it is encrypted - coded - so that we have to translate it to our brain's individual language before understanding it. But we can't analyse it all. Most of the information we consume is stored as raw data. We simply can't keep up so long as all that information remains encrypted.

Enter StatBag.

Information design. That is what StatBag is about. Decoding some of the world's information and reconstructing it so that we can understand it better. And find some new meaning in it, too. It's not just a Bag of Statistics, but a Bag of Decoded Statistics. It should probably be called DecStatBag. But then again probably not.

So by reading this blog you're going on an adventure with information, statistics, design and statistical information design. And what better way to start an adventure than by drawing up a map of where we are going. Below is such a map. This is the compass for what will be contained within this blog, and will be referred back to at various intervals along the way. So if you're confused by the above, hopefully the following will shed some light on what this blog will contain.