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Beyond Metrics

Tom Geraghty · Measurement, Models & Critique, Stories & Cases

Uses John Snow's 1854 cholera map as a case study in going beyond quantitative metrics to find answers that numbers obscure. Argues that what matters often can't be measured, and that over-reliance on metrics produces measurement-shaped knowledge rather than reality-shaped knowledge.

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