ABSTRACT
The simplification of reality can be especially seen in sports records, which necessarily must choose what to record. Sports records are fit for some purposes and not for others. The idea of negative space is well established in design. Sometimes negative space is used as an effect. Graphs are an invaluable tool when cleaning data, because they show each observation in the dataset, potentially in relation to the other observations. Hopefully most of the data are concentrated in the most common counts. It is sometimes said that Americans are obsessed with money, while the English are obsessed with class. Class is so important, subtle, and can have such a pernicious effect on analysis, that analysis with a suite of tests that check class is easier to believe. There are many open questions around the effect and implications of type in computer science more generally but there has been some work.
