Cyan comments on How to make your intuitions cost-sensitive - Less Wrong

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Comment author: apophenia 08 February 2011 12:20:25PM 2 points [-]

There's lots of ways to keep track of expenses. I'd long been doing that in an excel spreadsheet.

Once you have them, you need to look at them in a cost-sensitive way. I don't see how writing down numbers accomplishes that.

Comment author: Cyan 09 February 2011 11:45:25PM 1 point [-]

This aligns well with Andrew Gelman's constant refrain that graphs are almost always better than tables for conveying info.

Comment author: apophenia 10 February 2011 06:30:42PM 1 point [-]

Edward Tufte makes a similar point in his books ("The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", etc.)

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