Radar Charts and Knowledge Distribution Charts

- [[Knowledge distribution maps and radar charts are almost identical in what they represent]]
- ![image](https://gyazo.com/82a4fb799bce18b045c33f1d4647aa42/thumb/1000)
- Maybe people are more familiar with radar charts.

- The picture I drew in [[Specialists and generalists]] is similar to the mapping between a radar chart and a knowledge distribution map
- ![image](https://gyazo.com/aaadadcd37943e5dc6bd6c0b832e6fd9/thumb/1000)

• Radar chart has discrete regions of definition, but the knowledge distribution map is continuous

  • I believe the “knowledge domain” is not discrete, but continuous.
  • The knowledge domain that many people imagine may be discretized
  • Even in my descriptions of various things, I often discuss them in a discretized definitional domain of about one or two points.
    • Like, “I know engineering and I know business administration.”
    • In this case, it MUST not be a continuous knowledge distribution map

• The radar chart is limited to a finite definitional area.

  • This is unacceptable to me.
  • It creates the misconception that “everything is in plain sight.”
  • It’s important not to overlook the fact that “new territory is being created.”
    • Related: Strategy Canvas.
    • New fields of knowledge are being created all the time.
  • The knowledge distribution map has no edges and is infinite.
  • But then I thought about it, and I never really explained it properly. - Increase in knowledge areas
  • For simplicity, I have used one dimension, but of course it is multidimensional.

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