Astrology was the first art to capitalize on "the powerful storytelling possibilities inherent in numerical data," writes Alexander Boxer in his new book, A Scheme of Heaven. In that regard, it was the predecessor of all modern big data disciplines. A Scheme of Heaven is an introduction to astrology that offers a handsome primer of the structures and concepts with which astrologers have tried to make our world of data manageable.

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模式、统计数据和星星

亚历山大·博克瑟在他的新书《天国计划》中写道，占星术是第一种利用“数字数据中固有的强大叙事可能性”的艺术。在这方面，它是所有现代大数据学科的前身。A Scheme of Heaven 是对占星术的介绍，它为占星家试图使我们的数据世界变得易于管理的结构和概念提供了一个很好的入门。