Friday, August 30, 2019
uHandy Mobile Microscope Duet
The uHandy Mobile Microscope Duet looks really fun and a great way to use a smartphone for science teaching. It's a little pricey at $129.95, but there's the uHandy Lite for $34.95. Read a review here.
Monday, August 26, 2019
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Slavery in the USA
Great story map from USA Today and a nice examples of the so-called digital humanities (DH): Slavery's explosive growth, in charts: How '20 and odd' became millions.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Anchor Phenomena in Science Teaching
Anchor phenomena is one of the buzz words today in STEM teaching and learning: something that connects a specific activity or learning sequence to something that students find compelling. Here are some resources:
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Cyber Agriculture
Cyber Agriculture: read more about it The future of agriculture is computerized (MIT News). That's all fine - now please show me that this works for growing something useful such as potatoes, cassava, tubers, etc. - then I may get excited.
Educational Attainment in America
Educational Attainment in America is a nice dot map. I find these maps a little tricky to interpret due to the uneven distribution of population across the country. This one, however, has a nice feature in that you can generate a simple bar chart for the current view.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Julia
Julia = the speed of C with the convenience of Python. If you don't know what any of this means...have a look at Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed, download Julia, and start your coding with Juno.
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Machine Learning / AI
Or as we also call it: voodoo. Something that some people do somehow using this thing called Big Data that is out there, but nobody can see (= dark matter). Here are a couple of days to do this voodoo yourself and makes a lot of money.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Wind Speed, Wind Direction, and Temperature
Wind Speed, Wind Direction, and Temperature across the USA in one animation? Have a look at US Wind Patterns. Cool? Yes! Useful? No.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Mapping Segregation
Nothing new here, but two nice interactive visualizations using two different approaches: one is a classic dot map, the other a census polygon map.
- Segregation Map (Washington Post)
- Segregated, really segregated, or ultra-segregated?
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Better Research Posters
Great stuff here from Mike Morrison and this really highlights the issues we have in scientific communication in-general.
- To Save The Science Poster, Researchers Want To Kill It And Start Over
- #betterposter Template
- Example 1
- Example 2
Monday, August 5, 2019
The Top 12 Landsat Image Sites
The Top 12 Landsat Image Sites is pretty obvious. I'm still using the good old USGS GloVIS viewer (works great, also for the Sentinel images).
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Runways and Wind
Obviously, runways are oriented to match the most common wind direction, so therefore a map of runways should be able to tell us a lot about the most common wind direction. Have a look at Trails of the Wind for just that.
Explore the Solar System with Tabletop Whale
The Daily Selfie
Pretty cool animation showing how Planet's fleet of satellites image the entire Earth, daily.
Poverty USA
Poverty USA offers demographic data viz at the US county level for different years in a nice and clean interface. Now, what would be better:
- Add the US cities level.
- Add a comparison function that let's you compare two cities or counties.
- Add a image export.
- Add a data export.
The Humanitarian Data Exchange
The Humanitarian Data Exchange looks great and Joe Kerski tried it here.
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