iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Simon Worthington

@simonwo.net

Building data tech that works for real people. MD of data specialists team @register-dynamics.co.uk. Don't DM me, email. He/him. All content CC-BY-SA4

Posts Replies Media

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 07/08/2025

I think I was cooking with this graph tbh

A diagram titled "What input method works for users?" The vertical axis is titled "Volume of things". The horizontal axis is titled "User capability". There is a thin triangle entitled "web forms" that has its height edge on the far bottom left, and declines to the right to an apex on the bottom right. There is a thin triangle entitled "APIs" that has its height on the far top left, and declines down to an apex in the bottom right. The rest of the space is largely taken up by a polygon marked "spreadsheets".

000

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 24/07/2025

"Data Visualisation in Cloth and Stitch" I don't think I've ever bought anything so fast.

050

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 13/05/2025

Another one that I'm using for a webinar this week (www.linkedin.com/events/73204...) is this one. Less pithy but I think it gets to the heart of the issue, which is that AI doesn't increase reliability, and you have to put a lot more difficult work in to dealing with the failure modes.

"A lot of these technologies, although they are absolutely amazing and enable us to do incredible things, often fail in unexpected ways, or they tend to be a little bit more brittle than humans are." Dr Anthony Corso, Stanford Center for AI Safety

010

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 30/01/2025

Doesn't look optional to me bruv

221

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 30/01/2025

What do you mean this isn't a valid input, it was you who asked for a phone number and sexually transmitted disease in the same box

221

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 30/01/2025

Where to even begin - Why are you asking my name when you just told me what it was - Why is the name you told me different to the one you prepopulated - Why a Warning box to explain what optional means - Why explain what Optional means by using two equally complicated words, completion and voluntary

161

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 11/12/2024

And finally (I'll stop yapping now) here is our own model for the highest priority information needs of dataset users, based on various factors but also split out by where the user is on their journey of finding data to use. (This was about data standards, but is also applicable to data in general.)

130

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 26/09/2024

For a while today I was the most northerly person in the United Kingdom.

It's me with shades on, doing a V sign with my fingers.

Its a view northwards towards Muckle Flugga lighthouse.

140

Simon Worthington @simonwo.net · 01/12/2023

Everyone forgets that the main lesson from Jurassic Park wasn't life finding a way but that they had an over-reliance on automation.

000