You think about frames more often than most people. In your field this is called dimensionality reduction and you do it for a living. You are, at this moment, also being reduced to a single dimension by a system you did not build and cannot see. To a datapoint which defines but does not describe. The definition is accurate. What the datapoint describes and what you are have the same relationship as a label and a box. You can imagine it as a factory. Or a mailroom. Or an office. You and your coworker would put items into boxes and boxes on a conveyor belt and they would be taken to the other end. Your coworker would keep the boxes moving. You would field the phone calls. The phone calls are about the labels. The labels are about the boxes.