What’s the Matter With Chernoff Faces?:
In 1976 statistician Herman Chernoff had the idea of representing multivariate data in figures now known as Chernoff Faces. The theory is that since we are highly practiced in the art of facial recognition, and can discern minute variations in features and expression, perhaps encoding data in a likeness of a human face would reveal things that, say, a bar graph wouldn’t. And reading the diagram would, ideally, be as natural as interpreting the face of your best friend. As an example, here are some team statistics from the 2005 baseball season represented in a table and then as a series of Chernoff Faces
“So why shouldn’t our functional objects – our everyday kitchen gadgets and social websites – also be beautiful and delightful in playful, unexpected, inventive and illuminating ways?”
MTV’s brand new look - There’s something familiar about this, I’m ot sure which other UK channel currently has a similar style. The progress bars I’ve only seen on Current TV before.
Scope (Schulze & Webb)
I really enjoy this talk by Matt Webb. The whole thing is worth reading. I’m going to snippet all the highlights for myself. Be forewarned this is likely to take up the next 15 posts or so, all from the same presentation.
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Free with Chris Anderson
It amuses me that this talk on ‘Free’ has a £10 ticket price
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