Based On Science

Based on Science = Answers to Everyday Science and Health Questions from the National Academies

SHENOVA

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Paris to Pittsburgh

Excellent film!

Inclusive Teaching

This is a pretty good read: Want to Reach All of Your Students? Here’s How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive. The authors emphasize the importance of structure and offer a nice analogy: "For example, say you threw a party to bring together your single friends. They are far more likely to meet a variety of people if you plan icebreakers and activities (high structure) than if you simply provide space and time for the event (low structure). The same is true of learning: More structure means more students will engage and learn from you and their peers...the extroverted party lover is going to mingle and meet people in either a low- or high-structure event. But the introverts (like us) who aren’t comfortable with random mingling won’t. Helping those who need the structure doesn’t harm those who don’t."

Air Bubbles in Ice

Great photograph by @ lakewoodhiker:

https://twitter.com/lakewoodhiker/status/1173978513247879168

IBM Watson Studio Desktop

IBM Watson Studio Desktop does it all: data viz, Big Data, AI, gives back rubs, etc. Way too expensive @ $199/month, but there is a free student edition.

Extreme climate change has arrived in America

2°C: BEYOND THE LIMIT is a nice scroll-able data viz from the Washington Post. Be patient, keep on scrolling, and you will eventually find an interactive chart showing temperature changes between 1895 and 2018 for a U.S. County of your choice.

SLR & Coastal National Parks

SLR & Coastal National Parks is well-done.

LabScrum

Scrum for academic labs = LabScrum. I like it: sprints, stand-ups, etc. could make the way we operate so much more effective. Nice article in Nature: A project-management tool from the tech industry could benefit your lab.

The Malaspina Glacier

Malaspina on the Move is a great animated GIF.

Mercator (again)

Mercator - It's  flat, flat world is a nice immersive story map that nicely describes and illustrates the history of this map and map projection.

Dorian and Germany

Snow Depth Mapping using SfM and more

Goetz and Brenning (2019): Quantifying uncertainties in snow depth mapping from structure from motion photogrammetry in an alpine area. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2019WR025251.

Filhol et al. (2019): Time-lapse Photogrammetry of Distributed Snowdepth During Snowmelt. Water Resources Research, doi: 10.1029/2018WR024530. Ground-based, oblique with 3 cameras - easy in concept, but the details are complex. They make a good point: usually we either have high-frequency time series from point measurements or sporadic spatial data from satellites, UAVs, etc. Their approach tries to bridge that gap.

The Secret Global Sewer System

More About Colors

Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualisation is a nice compilation with some nice resources, for example CARTOColors and Colorpicker.