Comments on: Splitting Tigers, Lumping Rabbits

By: On Categorization « Predicate, LLC | Editorial + Content Strategy

On Categorization « Predicate, LLC | Editorial + Content Strategy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:37:11 +0000

[...] At its core, categorization is about lumping similar things together into a group and splitting distinctly different things into separate groups.via Splitting Tigers, Lumping Rabbits – Scatter/Gather: a Razorfish blog about content strategy, p… [...]

By: nick heasman

nick heasman — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:17:30 +0000

incredibly awesome picture

also, nice neat entry, too, as TobiJo indicates

By: Rachel Lovinger

Rachel Lovinger — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:47:27 +0000

Sounds like a good topic for a future post!

By: TobiJo

TobiJo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:33:17 +0000

Rachel, I like this principle. Could you come up with a list of principles like this? It would be great to have a short list of best practices for categorization. I have several books on categorization/classification and they get way to heady way too fast. You made this lumping/splitting thing easy to understand.

Maybe also worth clarifying if you think categories are “one size fits all” or if amount of splitting or lumping depends on the audience. Maybe botanists and content strategists would love 500 categories, while other specific audiences would like fewer?

By: Lizzie

Lizzie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:57:13 +0000

Your post reminds me of my never-ending quest to make my quicken categories work for me, not to mention trying to make file the tons of paper all over my desk (different clients, different work for the clients, you get the picture). It’s not a pretty sight…

Been reading some various pieces on the whole human behavior/psychology aspects of human nature lately, including “Dominance & Delusion,” by M.A. Curtis, which looks into, as the title says, “Why We Do the Things we Do.” Very interesting take on various topics — I learned a lot about how we got to where we are today. Now if I could just get myself to where I’m organized today, I’d be all set!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:05:40 +0000

Very Interesting Info.