Miscellaneous

Have you seen this yet? Illustrator Alexander Perrin experimented with bringing a hand-drawn quality to an interactive medium. It’s a breath of fresh air called Short Trip. (And brb, I…

This clip of Obi-Wan saying “Hello there” 67 million times amused me too much. I think there’s a lesson in averages or small multiples hidden somewhere in there.…

Last year the New York Times interviewed Justin Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex about how they put together their song Where Are Ü Now. NYT coupled the video with data visualization…

Mathematician Katie Steckles shows logical solutions to wrapping variously shaped presents. I could’ve used this a few days ago. At some point in the wrapping process I wondered if it’d…

From Gemma Correll. I am amused.…

I have no idea what’s going on here, and I prefer to keep it that way.…

There were some blips on Twitter last week for the DrunkTufte hashtag for which people made some not so readable charts. I’m really hoping it becomes a thing. The entry…

By Emily McDowell, this recounting of dates initiated by the internet is funny. Fittingly posted on Valentine’s Day, a sample: Estimated percentage of profiles containing the description “fun-loving”: 80 Estimated…

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Gift-buying season is in full swing, and it’s time to get stuff for your loved ones. But, it has to be tangible, because stuff that occupies space in the physical…

TNT described NBA player Anthony Davis’ growth and accompanied the discussion with a graphic that showed a picture of Davis over the years. To drive the point home I guess…

Sweet, I guess Fox News had it right all along. I’m going to save a ton of space by truncating my vertical axes from now on. I just might go…

Alinea is a restaurant by Grant Achatz known for deconstructing flavors and piecing them together again for bites of deliciousness. They have a cookbook that describes how they make their…

A one-off tumblr that catalogs stock images that depict the tumultuous, rising sea of big data. Nice. Still though, nothing beats Big Star Trek Data.…

Philip Guo provides three practical reasons on why it’s worth pursuing a PhD. Worth considering if you’re hemming and hawing about graduate school. Then again, it’s just as easy to…

When you hear about sports analytics in the news or when announcers talk about it during a game, it seems like really advanced stuff is going on behind the scenes.…

Malke Rosenfeld uses percussive dance to teach math to her elementary students. The program is called Math in Your Feet. Through learning dance patterns, students also pick up on math…

A Truncated Story of Infinity, a short film by Paul Trillo, explores the infinite possibilities in the mundane and everyday — “cosmic doppelgangers.” So many small things can change the…

By Ben Shabad, full-time graduate student and part-time cartoon-drawing person.…

I don’t know about you, but I like my bagel as two roughly cut, congruent linked halves. I usually use a fork, aluminum foil, and some duct tape. No more.…

Numbers is a short film by Robert Hloz where some people see numbers appear above others’ heads. What the numbers are varies by the person with the ability, and it…

By Matthew Freeman. This is important.…

Not sure where this is from, but feel that tingle in the back of your head? That’s the feeling of your mind blowing up.…

Based on a column by Tim McEown, the animated video Modern Love by Freddy Arenas elegantly illustrates a relationship.…

Sir Francis Galton, creator of the concept of correlation and regression toward the mean, wrote a letter to the editor of Nature in 1906 on the best way to cut…

I’m not sure how I just came across this now, but the Truth Facts comic by New Creations is right up my alley. It’s essentially a collection of charts and…

— Using Dates and Times in R. — Jerzy Wieczorek describes his first semester as a stat PhD student. — Apparently there’s a stochastic process in probability theory called the…

The person in this cartoon nailed it. I’m going to do the same starting this weekend, and I recommend that you do too, if you want to live longer. (Couldn’t…

The holiday season came out of nowhere this year. Everyone put their lights up over the weekend while I’m stuck trying to figure out what day it is. If you’re…

Nice. See also Lisa Simpson on the curve of knowledge. [via reddit]…