measurement

An extremey complex visualisation of the whole system of factors that affect obesity. It's a mass of labels and connecting lines and coloured areas.

Measures and targets

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025
New stuff

I recently saw a post on Mastodon to the effect that when a measure becomes… Read More »Measures and targets

A "Stacey Matrix". X axis is "realisation", which runs from clear to unclear. Y axis is "requirements", which runs from clear to unclear. Clear realisation x clear requirements = simple. Medium realisation x medium requirements = complicated. Unclear realisation x unclear requirements = complex. Beyond that, in the top right hand corner: chaos.

Reading 2

July 6, 2025July 6, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour Image credit – Dr Stefan… Read More »Reading 2

Blach and white photo. Elspeth Beard astride her BMW motorbike, with large side and rear panniers (designed and built by her out of sheet aluminium and rivets), with a white helmet resting on the handlebars. She's wearing jeans, leather boots, and a leather jacket. She's parked up outside what looks like a warehouse, looking off camera.

Reading 1

June 28, 2025July 6, 2025
Reading

This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour 15 mins Image credit: Motorcyclist… Read More »Reading 1

White smoke on a black background. (Photo by Pascal Meier on Unsplash.com)

Making the important visible

June 27, 2024June 28, 2025
New stuff

I’m thinking about this today, prompted by the latest post on Seth’s Blog: “If it’s… Read More »Making the important visible

A salmon jumping upstream over a small ramp in a fast flowing river

About salmons and whooping cranes

July 28, 2019August 31, 2024
Archive (old posts)

(Originally published on Medium.) Somewhere along my biologist training or my subsequent cross-disciplinary meanderings, I… Read More »About salmons and whooping cranes

Depth measurements painted on the side of a canal

What we measure is secondary to why we measure

July 13, 2019June 27, 2025
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(Originally published on Medium.) I have been having many conversations about Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)… Read More »What we measure is secondary to why we measure