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Satire and satirical drawings in 1789 could get you killed
Satirical drawing from 1789. We started off this series (on our IG) of French Revolution postings with a United Nations graphic on current inequality (or an inequality-adjusted Human Development Index.) We wanted to help illustrate why some current theory says it’s important. Historians debate the causes of the revolution, but commentators at the time pointed out inequality. This is one of the social commentators arguing the social inequality aspect, but doing so with a cartoon rather than words. (The 3rd estate is carrying the wealthy 1st and 2nd estates on its back. The 3rd estate were the commoners in the French ancient regime. Amongst other things, they were subject to much heavier taxation than the other two estates.) Then, as now, these cartoons could get you in trouble. This was 18th century drawing was published anonymously. If it annoyed the King too much, the 18th century police would launch an investigation to trace the source.… Read the restNasa Mars Pathfinder mission examining rock (Photo)
Nasa Mars pathfinder missing examining a (now famous) rock on the Red Planet. (We’re continuing our Mars space exploration theme from the past few posts.) In this photo, the Sojourner rover of the Nasa Mars Pathfinder mission is using its X-ray spectrometer to measure Yogi Rock. Yogi Rock is now a famous place on Mars. It’s even got a Wikipedia entry. We know everyone remembers their Martian geography. We just need to say the name of the place on Mars and everyone and their real estate agent knows exactly where that is. Heck, it’s probably got a postal code already. Well, actually, it’s mostly famous due to that reality TV and webcam show called the Nasa Mars Pathfinder mission. What reality TV can do to places, huh? We hear the real estate there’s still plenty cheap, though, despite the fame. A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed.… Read the restWolfram mathematica: data visualization example
This is example of visualization using Wolfram Mathematica, a commercial software package. We’ve previously discussed some of Wolfram’s other products and ideas in an earlier post on digital physics and cosmology as well as in our posts on IBM Watson. One of the reasons that data visualization remains something of a black art is that there are so many data visualization packages out there. Each package has its strength in a few kinds of plots or types of visualizations. Some of the better packages are commercial (and, unfortunately, not necessarily inexpensive). The high prices mean the experience of any practitioner is likely to be limited to a few commercial visualization packages over the course of a career (since most sites will only license a few packages). Open source data visualization packages are therefore very powerful, since they potentially combine the best of free tools. There are very good free tools out there.… Read the restData viz: scoreboards as the original analytics dashboard
Continuing our data visualization series, here is an example of scoreboards as the original analytics dashboards: the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Pylon. This is the famous pylon scoreboard at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana, USA. Business “dashboards”, where executives look at status indicators coming out of analytics (or, in some cases, mathematical models) sound like an automotive analogy. However, scoreboards from sports might be a better analogy than dashboards. This photo encompasses both analogies. (There are plenty of dashboards circling around the track, in addition to scoreboards.) We’ll have more about business dashboards in future postings. Photo credit: Wikimedia. A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed. (more…)… Read the restRecent Posts
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