In "The Everything Store," Stone recounts being teased by Bezos about "the narrative fallacy," Nassim Nicholas Taleb's term for turning a mess of information into a neat story.
Their relationship only ever showed real signs of strain when his own condition seemed to stabilise and his future look brighter.As a biographer, Ms Harman feels that subjects become "less knowable the more data accrues around them", but that through this mess of information there is a glimpse of "real life poking through".
The modeling activity is the activity of distilling communal knowledge out of a chaotic mess of information.
For example after the homophobia workshops, one guy told me, 'I'm totally confused now, I don't know what to think.' I asked him why, and he said, 'I don't know, I'm a mess, because you gave a lot of information and my attitudes aren't the same, so I don't know what to think.' … So I think it opens some questions in their heads, which is the most important for me.
Worse, some reflected a mess of conflicting information.
Determined to create an emergency plan for her family — she has a 5-year-old daughter with the co-founder of Urban Angler — Ms. Hooper had found the Internet cluttered with a mess of contradictory information.
Next up: a mess of incompatible information technology systems — 22 of them just to track paper rolls.
Without those two things, Maps on the iPhone could become a cluttered mess of useless information quickly.
Just imagine the mess of merging information about a 49-year-old personal investor with a 9-year-old kid with a fixation on Pokemon games.
Roambi's platform connects with a mess of business information sources and integrates with existing systems from IBM Cognos, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP BusinessObjects, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and Google Docs.
Social networks, on the other hand, are a mess of unstructured information.
