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There are a number of interesting analogs that come immediately to mind. Working with a deck of cards or stacks of paper are manual types of sorting paradigms which are familiar. So let's envision one small aspect of dealing with this problem - attribute enumeration. With our 1 million records, we can represent them as a deck of cards. But imagine that there were 100 cards in the deck instead of 52. If we dealt out the deck, each card would represent 10,000 customers. The thing to keep in mind is that we can zoom in to any card and deal with 10,000 or we could zoom back out to the entire deck. We can also change the size of the deck arbitrarily, but for now let's leave it at 100. Now we know a deck of cards has suits, and each card has a face value. But if we use our imagination we can think of each of these as dimensions or attributes. For the time being let's leave it at the attribute level. Part of the system that is going to help us out tremendously is that it will have visual paradigms for different scalar systems. When I think multitouch in my iPod, it's easy to do flick gestures through say 100 or 200 albums knowing that each album may have 1 to 20 songs each. But I also have contacts in my iPod, for me that's about 7000. It is very inefficient for me to navigate to the Rs, for example, knowing I have 500 people to flick through before I get to Joan Ruzart. I'd probably have to think, go to the Ss and flick backwards. ...

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