Category Archives: Nature

Indexical Visualization

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Samantha from SocialMath

Indexical Visualization is about visualizing something by looking at the actual thing. Most of the time we take the event and turn it into numbers (data), then we take those numbers and create a visualization out of them. The idea … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Communicating Math, Exercise, Nature | Tagged Data Stories, indexical visualizations, Ledecky, microbes, olympics, podcast, swimming, visualizations | 2 Comments

Zodiacs and Earth’s Precession

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Samantha from SocialMath

You may have seen recent posts claiming that NASA published some new results on the zodiac signs. Some of the bigger internet publishers, like Distractify, have popularized the story. The story says there is a 13th sign we haven’t seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Communicating Math, Media, Nature | Tagged Astrology, Astronomy, math, NASA, Precession, Ptolemy, Science, Zodiac | 3 Comments

Pinpoint the moment when…

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Samantha from SocialMath

Graphs and data are always there for us, especially if we want to look back in time and find the exact moment that something changed. Today I’m presenting a bit of a poem of images about time series. Here’s the … Continue reading →