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Category: Mathematics
Data viz on women’s tops sold on Goodwill’s website
An interesting data analysis on Goodwill’s online auction website.
The Gömböc is a self-righting shape
It’s like balancing an egg on its bottom except the Gömböc is much more unique as this video explains.
Natalie Portman in Datawrapper form
The only lines that Natalie Portman would want on her face, I’m sure.
Martin Lersch’s mathematically perfect Christmas cookie cutter
Get the most out of your Christmas cookies with a tessellating cookie cutter thanks to a Norwegian chemist-cum-cooking enthusiast.
The Galton board and the Normal distribution
Sir Francis Galton was a Victorian genius who invented the Galton board with real world applications. Find out how it works here.
The data visualisations of W.E.B. Du Bois
In 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois visualised the Black American experience at the Paris Exposition. ‘The Exhibit of American Negroes’ was his groundbreaking work.
Logarithms explained in the style of Bob Ross
Learn more about logarithms with Toby Hendy and her series, The Joy of Mathematics.
Some Arbitrary Facts About The Number 280
Twitter is trialling an extension to its character limit for tweets – from 140 to 280. Seeing as they find combatting online abuse and Nazism so arbitrary, here are some meaningless facts about the number 280. 280 is an octagonal number Greek mathematician Pappus geometrically demonstrated the property of the center of gravity in 280AD …