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Our Twitter account is a top 1% global social media influencer
According to social media rating firm Kred, our associated Twitter account is a top 1% of social media influencer globally. (Our Kred score, 751 at the original time of this writing, has since gone higher.) Thought we’d share the Kred badge as our Picture of the Day on our Instagram account. Multiple, third-party social media ratings firms, have consistently put us in the top 1 to 5% of social media influencers globally. We also a high Klout rating, and earlier social media rating firm Magnific ranked us among the most influential locally in Los Angeles. These social media rankings are, of course, an example of analytics (and, potentially, big data). Different rating firms (and techniques) have advantages and disadvantages. Kred’s claim to fame is that they are using a completely open ranking methodology. This is unlike most of their competitors, which feel a need to keep their algorithms secret to prevent gaming, among other issues.… Read the restMartians making Mars canals: Solution to yesterday’s puzzle
Yesterday we presented a puzzle photo. We promised to explain the relationship between the Panama Canal and Mars. Shown here in glorious black and white is the 1887 map by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. It shows “Mars canals.” Were these canals dug by intelligent Martians? Many in the 19th century thought so, and thought they had found proof of space aliens in their telescopes! Schiaperelli (and many others) thought they observed “canals” on Mars.(The map is in Italian or Latin with some legends in German, in part because this version was taken from an 1888 German encyclopedia version.)This has since been shown to be optical illusions; modern high-resolution maps of Mars show no such features.Part of it was mistranslation. Schiaperelli’s use of “Kanal” was translated into English as “canal”, but the usage in the original meant something closer to “channel”, a more neutral term suggesting a natural feature. In any event, everyone got very excited that there might be intelligent Martians building an advanced canal system on Mars for transport.… Read the restVirtual Fashion Shoot: Acculation Fashion Line (VR data #glamour)
This time, our data-driven decisions have led us to glamour, our own clothing line, and this VR virtual fashion shoot. Who says big data analytics have to be boring? First, some background on what got us here. Remember that, umm, ‘marketeer’ who suggested (in a comment on our IG feed) that we drop data science (one of the hottest fields at the moment) and instead sell his clothing? The comment was likely automated, but we had fun with it anyway. We told him we were too busy working on our perfume line. (“Data science: the new fragrance for men.”) But then we realized — technology exists to turn our IG feed (and the photo posts on this blog) into a fashion collection. So we wanted to do a fashion shoot. But models can be hard to work with. (They got agents, and, uggg, what a hassle. We live in LA, so we know.)… Read the restmath pattern art: mathematical quilting & design
Mathematical quilting and math pattern art & design: shown here are 17th century Italian quilts made from mathematical patterns. Yesterday’s Hamming metric (or Hamming Error Correcting Code) quilt got us thinking. Turns out there is a branch of quilting making (or perhaps a branch of mathematics if you will), “mathematical quilting.” It looks to math — polynominals, Rule 90 cellular automatons, etc., for inspiration in quilt making and pattern art. Shown here is so called “Florentine work” because these popular quilt designs are based on mathematical patterns originally found on chairs in the Bargello Palace (today an art museum) in Florence Italy. These chairs date to at least the 17th century, if not earlier. There are many types of these quilts, which are typically very colorful. The quilting requires precise counting of squares so that the pattern art design conforms to the mathematical pattern chosen. So yesterday’s crazy quilt, in which math creates art, isn’t unique.… Read the restRecent Posts
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