It’s been a long time since I focused on this, but I found some nice illustrations for some of them. The illustrations in this post by Maria Popova reminded my of the 10 Commandments. I looked through the other posters on the original website Advice to Sink in Slowly, and actually found an illustration for every commandment:
1. reveal curiosity/passion
Andy J Miller2. tell a story
Mathew Isherwood
3. great dreamLee Basford
Philosophers have a way with words. Since they work with the exploration of ideas, describing those ideas in words is essential. I have now collaborated with several philosophers, and I am continuously in awe of their mastery of language. It makes me question everything I write myself, what words I use, why I use them, definitions, meanings, …
Here is another example in the ecological literature of an exchange between an scientist, Root Gorlick, and a philosopher, Mark Colyvan (and immediately I start thinking whether I should use “scientist”, because does this imply that a philosopher is not a scientist, should it be better to use biologist, but then Root Gorlick is also affiliated with Math&Stats, you see the rabbit hole you quickly fall into?
Who thought stats would enter into every aspect of life? What about a Belgian dj duo called Mumbai Science, with the track “Ancova”?
And this thanks to 2 Many Dj’s and Music for Life 2011.
Great analysis about the usage of figures in politics: http://flowingdata.com/2011/12/12/fox-news-still-makes-awesome-charts/
What’s wrong with this figure?
See the original post for the answer.
One of the best spent $200.00 are not for a fraction of my laptop or desktop, or for my favourite books on R code, or for part of the cost to an exiting conference, but for my giant whiteboard in my office. I use it daily for doodling:
“To make spontaneous marks to help yourself think”
Another great TED talk, this time by Sunni Brown.
According to Christopher Booker, there are seven basic plots. I had always the intuition that the scientific method was an example of “the quest”: the scientist (i.e., hero) goes looking for something, often with collaborators. But I never thought that the link between story telling and the scientific method would be so obvious. I recently read an article in Wired about Dan Harmon, the creator of and screen writer for Community.
Brittany’s first publication stemming from her undergraduate research project during the Algonquin field course has just been published. She was part of team IDH (for obvious reasons), and they worked their butts of to collect the data: finding an interesting question based on her previous community ecology course, interviewing park people to find stands with known time-to-logging, collecting the data, tiring out the TAs who helped them (or maybe slowed them down), breaking down her field vehicle, of course exactly on the one day I came out with them.