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A non-Exhaustive List of Live's Key Questions


  1. How can this information be sorted, organized, grouped and visualized?
  2. What is the result of this series of actions? Are the steps reversible?
  3. Does it follow ? Can you verify the fact? How can we be sure?
  4. Have we reached the maximum or minimum? Can things get better or worse? What's best?
  5. What are the possibilities? Have we missed something?
  6. What strategies are available? Is there a different way to look at the situation?
  7. What are the chances? What are the risks?
  8. Can we simulate or model the situation?
  9. A small part of the situation is visible, but what is "actually" there?
  10. Why does this work?
  11. Are these figures accurate? Do the books balance?
  12. What's missing? What's extra?
  13. Is that reasonable? Do I have enough?
  14. Are these two things related? Does one factor influence the other?
  15. What are the extremes? What is most likely? How much variation can we expect?
  16. What are the ground rules? What limits do they impose? What if we change something?
  17. Does this problem behave like any other situation? What's the same? What is different?
  18. How much space is needed? Can we create a scale model?
  19. How fast is the situation changing? How much time will it take?
  20. Will the proposed change really make a difference? How can we improve the outcome?
  21. Is there a shortcut or a procedure to perform this task?
  22. What have we learned from our experiences? How can we improve the outcome?
  23. How precise must our work be?
  24. What does this table (or graph) say? How should we present this information?
  25. Is there a pattern here? What's next? Will this trend continue?
  26. How much is necessary to complete the task?
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