Making Data Dance
Lessons on the Quality of Life
Dieter KorczakGP Forschungsgruppe, Germany
WHAT IS QUALITY OF LIFE?
The German stock market guru André Kostolyani answered the question of what belonged to a good life: “A good wine, a perfect meal, beautiful women. Money does not belong to it.”1 We add that dancing and singing, drinking, eating and playing are along with the Dolce far niente the most original forms of expression of quality of life.
Quality of life deals undoubtedly with the pleasant sides of life, with happiness, satisfaction, well-being, standard of living. Of...