#2610: Assigning Numbers explain

[Cueball holds a hand up to his chin while he ponders the contents of what may be a whiteboard. There are five general lines of unreadable scribbling on the board, and between the two bottom lines, there is a square frame to the right with another scribble to the left. Cueball’s thoughts are shown above him in a large thought bubble.]

Cueball’s thinking: If I assign numbers to each of these things, then it becomes data, and I can do math on it!

[Caption beneath the panel:]

The same basic idea underlies Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem and all bad data science.