What does randomness look like?
Random Walk asks this question and presents experiments in mathematics and physics, showing the mysterious interaction of chaos and order in randomness.
via Information Aethetics, obviously.
posted by signal
on May 30, 2009 -
21 comments
The significance of the dinosaurs' death has been greatly
exaggerated. This article in Nature discusses how mammalian evolution accelerated independent from the death of dinosaurs. The theory was derived from a "
supertree" [pdf ~ 1mb] of mammals and how common ancestors have branched out. Coolest info-graphic ever.
posted by phyrewerx
on Mar 28, 2007 -
33 comments
Real Time Rome, the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s contribution to the 2006 Venice Biennale, aggregated data from cell phones, buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time.
via information aesthetics
posted by signal
on Sep 18, 2006 -
4 comments
Web Authoring Statistics from Google.
An analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata.
posted by signal
on Jan 26, 2006 -
29 comments