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visualizing inequality
One of my resources to keep in touch with development debates is Oxfam GB Duncan Green’s From Poverty to Power blog. Apart from his own interesting posts and guest contributions he regularly publishes a Links I Liked post that always contains click-worthy … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandan Reynolds, Branko Milanovic, Duncan Green, GAB, Inequality, Rory Gallagher, visualization, WAG
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energy footprints
I have this thing with meaningless numbers turned into something sensible by a comparison, a visualization, or an analogy. And I’ve got this thing with inequality. An example I recently came across is the energy footprint of Bangkok luxury malls. … Continue reading
global inequality
It’s been a fancy for some time now and I keep being amazed about the scale of the disparity described by that bland term inequality. Just came across this graph. I knew about the basic stat already but my fresh amazement at … Continue reading
reblogging the largest, most detailed image of space ever
Just too stunning not to share. Originally published on quartz: The vastness of space is so expansive, so inconceivable, that frankly, it makes humanity’s lot in the universe seem pretty tiny and pointless. Amplifying that sense of insignificance, NASA has released its … Continue reading
an interesting use of heat maps for visualizing
An article on quartz about An Atlas Of The Human Body That Maps Where We Feel Emotions pointed me to this scientific article by Finnish researchers on using heat maps to visualize the experience of emotions.
artful storytelling
A random article in a Dutch daily that I read online brought Lithuanian sculptor Gintaras Karosas on my radar, founder of what may be Europe’s most spectacular open-air sculpture museum, the 55 hectare of nature and art called Europos Parkas. The article focused … Continue reading
Cairo Chairs
Dutch photographer Mark Nozeman recently spent two month in Cairo. I like his Cairo Chairs the best. Enough to reblog them here. I can assure you that Caireen streets are plastered with these chairs: house masters (bawebs), guards, car washers/parking attendants, … Continue reading
visualizing with words
Chris Jordan is a photo artist who tries to use art to get us thinking about big numbers. This is the explanation on his site for his Running the numbers: an American self-portrait project: Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American … Continue reading
Posted in psychology, society
Tagged Chris Jordan, David Abram, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, philosophy of the flesh, statistics, visualization
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visualizing the big
We are really bad at understanding big numbers. Numeracy training may get us a bit beyond one-two-three-many but not much. The problem is that quantity matters to lots of issues in life. My favourite popular science book is a Bill … Continue reading
visualizing corruption
The recent release by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, that expose hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over connects so many of my fancies that I cannot let … Continue reading
the sorrows and soothing of a wandering mind
we’ve all got a pattern chasing mind. We see them quickly if they are there and also when they are not there. Feeling lost in a chaos of unconnected bits and pieces we connect as many as we can into … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Cuddy, biased media, Bobby McFerrin, Greg Palast, Joris Luyendijk, legal corruption, mind-body connection, patterns, Unspeak, visualization
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the joy of stats
We humans are good at seeing patterns. But one has to take that quite literally, seeing patterns. At least for those with brains as limited as mine. If you’ve got a fancy for data like me, that means you have … Continue reading
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