- An epidemic is confined to a limited region or community, but affects a large number of people in said region or community.
- A pandemic is an epidemic that is actively spreading across multiple communities and/or regions (countries, continents, etc.)
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
The World's Deadliest Epidemics
Great story map: An illustrated history of the world’s deadliest epidemics, from ancient Rome to Covid-19. As an aside - what;s the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?
National Geographic MapMaker
The National Geographic MapMaker (by Esri) is great - try it!
One thing to add: after making their map, students need to be able to 'save' it as a unique URL so that they can share it with others, including their teacher. The PDF export & screenshot functions are great, but then you loose the interactivity.
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Stats with R or Python!
Nerd alert: An Introduction to Statistical Learning is now available in two versions - one with applications in R and one with applications in Python. That's already pretty awesome & now add that both versions are free to download as a PDF!
Monday, July 10, 2023
El Nino + Humans = Hot!
So, June was hot. How hot does not really matter - the hottest June in 1000, 2000, 10000, or 100000 years - who cares! This becomes a classic red herring for the deniers to exploit & gets us discussing the specifics, nuances, and uncertainties associated with paleoclimatology. Here's all you need to know: Human-caused global warming combines with natural climate variability (El Nino) into what we are experiencing as weather. Here are two good videos:
Thursday, July 6, 2023
What's the best font?
Here's an issues best avoided: stressing-out over fonts! The best advice for most of us is simpe: use a serif font for text and a sans-serif font for data, tables, chart labels, etc.
That being said: What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you from the Washington Post is a nice demonstration how changing the font impacts the way you read and write.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
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