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Streamgraph: multidimensional data visualization
This is an illustration of a streamgraph, a more non-traditional form of multi-dimensional data visualization. A streamgraph is just one of many techniques for converting multi-dimensional data in a single graphic for presentation. This particular example is based on Last.fm music listening habits in January and February 2012. A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restInternet map: network data visualization example
Moving on from dashboards & scoreboards, let’s look at some cool data visualizations. This is a 2005 visualization of the Internet IP addresses — or an Internet map. It’s an example of data visualization for a network. Each line joins two IP addresses, with the length representing the delay between them. Less than 30% of reachable addresses were used to construct the Internet map, so this Internet map is only a partial map of the Internet at that time. Photo: Wikimedia/Matt Britt/The Opte Project/CC-BY-2.5 A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restgenetic disease turns you into a real-life vampire
Halloween photo 2: Could this real-life vampire, a genetic disease sufferer, see himself in the mirror? This is Transylvania born and bred (and Romania’s national hero and native son) Vlad III Tepes aka Vlad III Dracula (Wikipedia), real life noble and vampire. (His title translates from Romanian a bit higher than count, more like duke or prince.) Dracula (or Dracul, Dracule), is thought to have suffered from the genetic illness porphyria (Wikipedia), which symptoms match that of a vampire. A recessive disorder, it is much more likely to occur in inbred noble or royal families, and DNA testing has shown several prominent, historical nobles suffered from the genetic disease. No, porphyria suffers don’t turn into bats, become immortal, or sleep in coffins. And a genetic disease is hereditary, so a bite from a porphyria sufferer wouldn’t do much to you. (Rabies, the obvious disease basis for werewolf folklore, is another matter entirely.)… Read the restAnimal intelligence & consciousness: the mirror test
Analytics and mirrors: While the ability to recognize ones reflection in a mirror appears to be an excellent test of animal intelligence (and perhaps a hint about machine intelligence), with very few animals passing the test, humans have appreciated mirrors for millennia. Sacred objects in some cultures (e.g., ancient Japan), mirrors have been cherished for at least 6000 years, since at least the beginning of the Bronze Age. Shown here is an ancient Etruscan Bronze mirror #handle from the 4th–3rd century BC on display in the Lourve museum collection near Paris in France. The piece is titled, appropriately enough, “The Judgement of Paris.” It’s easy enough to see where humans got the idea for mirrors, as we’ll show in our next photo. This is also a great segue into our Halloween posts. (This was originally posted on our IG feed as part of a series of Halloween posts.) Other than smoke and mirrors, or a room full of mirrors, what do mirrors have to do with Halloween?… Read the restRecent Comments
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