Who loves data? If we’re talking about the android from Star Trek: TNG, then I do, and if we’re talking about the thing that’s not the plural of anecdotes, then I’m pretty sure the answer is everyone. If you love data, then you’ll definitely love visualising data, and Google have teamed up with the Open…
Not mentioned on The Aperiodical last week – Un-un-free research, MOOCs and cash for arty maths
Yikes! Even with our hard-working new team of News Team news teamsters chopping away at it admirably, our news queue has grown faster than we can deal with. That means it’s time for another bullet list of news! The first edition of the IMA’s new journal Information and Inference (announced previously) came out last December, and everything’s…
Applied game theory: Students boycott exam and all get an A
A piece on the New York Times Economix blog casts a story from Inside Higher Ed as a piece of applied game theory. Professor Peter Fröhlich of Johns Hopkins University has a grading system in which each class’s highest grade on the final counts as an A, with all other scores adjusted accordingly. So if…
Like in a Dream, by Jérémie Brunet
[youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S530Vwa33G0] A mesmerising tour through fractal space. Switch to fullscreen HD if you can. Created with Mandelbulb3D via Steven Wittens on Google+
The New Mathblogging.org
A couple of weeks ago, our chums slash competitors ((Not really, they’re just chums.)) at mathblogging.org relaunched their website. They’re now using the much fancier ScienceSeeker.org software and it looks really good.
Pi day live, starring Marcus du Sautoy
Since it’s Pi Day in March, and ridiculously there are still people who haven’t spurned π completely in favour of τ, maths/media pixie Marcus Du Sautoy is running a free online event, called Pi Day Live (hashtag: #pidaylive). Since everything is more exciting when it’s happening LIVE, actually and IN REALITY, they’ll be conducting a live…
Big Data Week
Anyone who’s a fan of data and bigness will be pleased to hear that 22-28 April is going to be Big Data Week. This ‘global festival of data’ will take place in participating cities all over the world, including London, Sydney, Barcelona, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Chicago and Utrecht (we only have a MathsJam in one of…