Science Archive:
Ebola is Going to get Worse
24 Oct 2014The statistics don’t look good.
Where Ya Running?
14 May 2014Strava has created a global heat map of running and biking data (77,688,848 rides and 19,660,163 runs).
Clean Forecast
13 May 2014I’m loving Weather Underground’s forecast data layout nowadays. Clear icons combined with layered charts. When something is done well, it seems so simple. **Muah**
How Americans Die
30 Apr 2014And annotated interactive narrative of about 20 charts on trends in death. This was done by Bloomberg, which has a number of these well done data mining narratives.
Periodic table distorted by how abundant each element is on earth.
The above is from 1970, so we’ve gotten a little more precise since then. Here are a few other versions:
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Why Does Genius Peak in Your Late 30s?
12 Mar 2014One theory is the it’s because it takes a while to absorb the knowledge of your predecessors.
Scientists spend ages 5 through 18 in school, and then ages 18 through 30ish getting their academic degrees. Then a few years of learning on the job, and presto! . Meanwhile, scientific breakthroughs tend to be less common in old age because we invest less in learning as we get older, and our skills gradually become less relevant.
Personally, I’m not sure I buy the explanation of the drop-off.
And the age continued to get older over the 20th century.
Tedious Map of the Solar System
In: Interactive Maps Science
10 Mar 2014Josh Worth created a horizontal map of the solar system using a scale of 1 pixel = diameter of moon. There’s a lot of nothing out there (but Josh does add some amusing commentary to help pass the time scrolling between planets).
Solar Time vs Standard Time
9 Mar 2014In theory, the sun should hit it’s apogee (highest point overhead) at noon. But that doesn’t happen in much of the world, for a variety of reasons. The below map by Stefano Maggiolo details the discrepancies.
Map of All Things US Energy
25 Feb 2014Map of all kinds of energy related things: coal fields, mines, oil/gas pipelines/storage, electrical transmission lines, wind turbine potential, offshore windspeeds, solar potential, etc. You get the idea.
It’s not the smoothest operating interactive map I’ve ever seen (lots of delays in loading, etc) – but it works if you’re patient.
Thanks to Mr. Brown for sending me the link.
January 2014 One of Hottest on Record
25 Feb 2014You wouldn’t know it is you lived on the East Coast, of course, but January 2014 was the 4th hottest on record, globally.
Map of Preventable Diseases
In: Interactive Maps Science
28 Jan 2014Plots outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by cheap and effective vaccines. (via)
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