Perpetual Ocean

March 27, 2012 – 7:32 am

Using a computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio (I think NASA has a thing for long - more -

What News Sites People are Reading, by State

March 26, 2012 – 6:00 pm

Jon Bruner of Forbes, in collaboration with Hilary Mason and Anna Smith of Bitly, maps the most popular news source by - more -

Custom Woodcut Maps

March 26, 2012 – 7:31 am

Just choose the location you want via the Google Maps interface, pick what materials you want, and Woodcut Maps puts your map through - more -

Inception Explained in Animated Infographic

March 23, 2012 – 7:54 am

Designer Matt Dempsey explains the storyline of Inception in this fun experiment. There were a few flowcharts that came out when - more -

How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

March 23, 2012 – 7:12 am

Adam Savage of Mythbusters gives a short talk on simple ideas leading to complex findings. Good. "Just thought a little bit harder" and "were a bit more curious."

Incorrect

March 22, 2012 – 7:57 am

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. — George E. P. Box, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces, 1987 A favorite quote among statisticians.

Freakonomics Critique and Rebuttal

March 22, 2012 – 7:03 am

Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen - more -

Watercolor Map Tiles

March 21, 2012 – 7:59 pm

A couple of years ago, when you thought about online interactive maps, what came to your mind? Lots of yellow. Online maps are - more -

Redefining NBA Basketball Positions

March 21, 2012 – 7:25 am

For the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference a few weeks ago, Stanford biomechanical engineering student Muthu Alagappan presented his work on redefining - more -

Innovation History via 6,000 Pages of Annual Reports

March 21, 2012 – 1:00 am

Fathom Information Design, in collaboration with GE, visualizes GE annual reports from 1892 to 2011. It doesn't sound so interesting at - more -