• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    But thats not the same as a derivative. Like saying a chart on which art styles were most popular in every decade is a derivate of every work in that survey. Because those works were used to create the data being presented.

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      7 days ago

      But… that is derivative. You can’t know which styles were most popular in a decade without looking at the styles popular in that decade. Such a chart must change if the data it’s built from changes.