> would have been useful to the chicken
As someone who's had to suffer through a lot of data visualization, unless the chicken is able to act on this insight, it's probably worthless.
Well, I think that chicken would be quite happy dealing with the ants for you.
Russell didn't make the dashboard for the chicken. The chicken is a data point.
It's worthless anyway. A chicken who can see the future and act on it in any way that bothers the people around it is going to be killed, and better-domesticated chickens will be bred to replace it.