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Mother’s Day Monet (Seasonal)
Seasonal: We thought we’d celebrate Mother’s Day with a Monet painting. (And of course, we’re planning to glitch this). This 1875 Claude Monet goes by a number of different names including “Madame Monet and her son”, “the stroll”, etc. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restEvolution of historical notions of Earth
A collage we created to help visualize evolving historical notions of Earth over time. We created it as part of our IG data visualization series. The first two maps are from ancient Rome. The middle image is of a 16th-century map is already surprisingly accurate. (That map was the tanktop being worn by our virtual reality fashion model in our last collage.) The last image is Earth photographed from space. D Data and geospatial analytics, where data is combined with other location information, are often important components in data analysis and visualizations. We have more and modern map collages forthcoming. Post and some comments below may be synced from our original Instagram version. Instagram likes: (more…)… Read the restNapoleon in Russia: Classic 19th Century Infographic
This is an amazing, classic 1869 French infographic and data visualization on Napoleon’s disastrous 1812-13 Russia campaign. Although it does not entirely fit into an Instagram square (this was originally published on IG), the very thick line in color is the Emperor of France’s army arriving. The extremely thin black lines are the surviving retreating troops staggering back home from Moscow. Frost bite and the bitter Russian winter were a major factor contributing to the heavy losses. (The temperature is shown in the bottom of the chart in Celsius, and you can see the impact of lower temperatures on the thinning black line. Had wind chills been understood in 1869, an even more dramatic correlation might have been possible.) This infographic is successful because it succinctly captures a great deal of information into a single figure. In addition to showing Napoleon’s dwindling troop strengths at various points in the campaign, a rough sense of chronology, geography (town names) and troop movements is given, together with the environmental conditions that contributed to the disaster. … Read the restData Science History: Quipu, Inca talking knots
These are Quipu, the talking knots of the Inca. This is data science history! This historical monochrome illustration dates from ca. 1615. It was drawn by Spanish conquistadors documenting the Inca. It is impossible to administer a complex civilization without a means of processing data and information. (This is one of the ideas behind our SETI photo and blog post theme of the last few days. Recall our earlier posts on Carl Sagan‘s expansion of earlier ideas measuring civilization through energy and information.) Although the ancient Inca (of modern-day Peru, Chile Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina) lacked writing, the Inca did have this system of these “talking knots” that allowed them to record transactions and information about their empire. This system was in use by the Inca from the 3rd Millenium BC, and, amazingly, remains in isolated use in some parts of South America into the present day. A version of this article originally appeared as a photo post on our Instagram feed.… Read the restRecent Posts
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