Simpler applications of open data, say, for example, easy-to-read graphs or maps (for example, of this useful map of London's bike accident blackspots), can help to widen people's understanding of key issues.
I am thinking, for example, of this NIPS 2016 paper by Matthew Johnson et al., which was motivated by a dataset of mouse behavior, or this ICML 2017 paper by Justin Gilmer et al. with applications to quantum chemistry.
By contrast, one could imagine in the analog electronics world a very different machine, a machine which also was, in some sense, universal, where you gave a circuit diagram as one of the inputs, for example, of this little low-pass filter, one-pole low-pass filter.
For example: of this rather striking mark, or group of marks, our panel asserts it is a "[f]irst century Christian monogram in Hebrew and Greek letters; it means 'Jesus Christ Son of the Father' " — quite a lot to pack into that squiggle, especially when we consider that both Hebrew and Greek are alphabetic, not pictographic languages.
Think, for example, of this divine claim: "I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord" (Jeremiah 9 24).
What is the price, for example, of this week's first-ever red alert in China, as millions are told to stay indoors, away from work and school, so as not to be made ill by air so sooty it looks dark grey?
For examples of this kind of handout, see Writing Guides.
For examples of this approach, see: Schwartz (1991).
