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Vox poured over the senate testimony transcripts of both Bart O’Kavanope and Dr. Ford so you don’t have to and created an interactive visualization, color coded for evasiveness. If it didn’t make your brain explode in real time last week,… Continue Reading →
Math + Model + Meatspace: a beautiful triptych-style short movie demonstrates how the math meets the meatspace [ via Colossal: The Beauty of Mathematics: A Visual Demonstration of Math in Everyday Life ] “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,… Continue Reading →
Brilliant short graphing the mundane as real-time data [ via Colossal: Unendurable Line: A Fun Short Film Tracks the Movement of Everyday Objects as a Real-Time Graph ]
I’ve spent quite a lot of time recently researching infographics – trying to get an understanding of what makes a good one (of which the examples are few and far between) and thinking about where infographics go next (after the… Continue Reading →
Here’s to having something that *is* more like Pi, not *looks* more like Pi. This Pi Day is Round from Vi Hart on Vimeo.
Qualitatively and quantitatively, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 is the hands-down worst movie of 2015, according to the data presented in this fascinating movie data visualization tool from Information is Beautiful. What makes it so bad? Universally panned by critics… Continue Reading →
Because pizza. Use the pizza theorem, feed 2 men equally; use monohedral disk tilings, feed an infinite number of men equally. [ Gizmodo: Mathematicians Have Found Crazy New Ways to Cut Pizza Into Equal Slices ]
From: FiveThirtyEight: The Impactof Every NBA All-Star, Ranked
Super nerdy valentines from the Evil Mad Scientist. Who doesn’t love the subtle yet nuanced complexity of a joke involving 1*2^0?