Math – Science, Technology, Society

Postach.io converts your Evernotes to a content management system

Posted on May 18, 2013July 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog
Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com

One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based…

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog http://flip.it/vOkRS http://flip.it/IV8va

Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog (techcrunch.com)
Evernote, IFTTT, Automatic Posts, and the Link Blog (trishussey.com)
Six digital publishing startups to watch (paidcontent.org)

The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live

Posted on January 30, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live
Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com

NPR’s Robert Krulwich has a whimsical piece on the one formula that rules it all, from unicellular organisms to whales and sequoias and humans. A math formula that governs our life and tells us when to die.Even more interesting: the same system…

The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live http://flip.it/7xDvm http://flip.it/hahyP

The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live (laserlenz.com)
The Math Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live (gizmodo.com)
Equation Watch tells the time using math (coolest-gadgets.com)
There’s a Maths Formula That Tells Us How Long Everything Will Live (gizmodo.co.uk)
Math Club and the Quadratic Formula Song (onegoodthingteach.wordpress.com)
Foolproof Study Tips for the Non Math Mind (homework.answers.com)

13 Conferences to attend in 2013

Posted on January 25, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

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Jan Wächter, datavisualization.ch

We’ve compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2013. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a…

RT @datavis: As if 13 opportunities to NOT get work done in 2013 weren’t enough, we added some more conferences to attend: http://flip.it/nlD6d http://flip.it/63Mpz

13 Conferences to attend in 2013

J&J to Speak at Pharmica Consulting’s Resource and Portfolio Management Conference (prweb.com)

Datavisualization.ch top tools

Posted on January 25, 2013February 12, 2013 by timbatchelder

Data Visualization – The secret’s now out!
theindustry.cc

Ever wonder how the folks over at Datavisualization.ch created their utterly gorgeous graphics? I did. Fortunately, to give back to the community (something we love here at The Industry), the team has released their Selected Tools…

RT @industry: Data Visualization – The secret’s now out! http://flip.it/IE0q7 by @cgarmstrong http://flip.it/fQ013

10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations (seomoz.org)
10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations (mt-soft.com.ar)
10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations (clixto7.com)
Links for 2013-01-26 (synesthesia.co.uk)
Selected Data Visualization Tools (swiss-miss.com)
Rapid Prototyping (slideshare.net)
Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship (dhs.stanford.edu)
Book Review: The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo (schoolofdata.org)
Thomas P. Tooley, ChFC , CLU , Elected to The American College’s Board of Trustees (prweb.com)

Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

Posted on December 10, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

Robert Ghrist from University of Pennsylvania wrote in to tell us about his new, free Coursera course in single-variable Calculus, which starts on Jan 7. Calculus is one of those amazing, chewy, challenging branches of math, and…

RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials http://flip.it/1gPJX http://flip.it/z2hVs

What is e? (exponentialnumber.wordpress.com)
Matloff: Why online education is college lite (newsday.com)
Ten websites that teach coding and a bunch of other things (pandodaily.com)

Wealth and health of nations info graphic

Posted on November 12, 2012April 7, 2013 by timbatchelder

The Wealth & Health of Nations
tumblr.com

An interactive graphic on “The Wealth and Health of Nations” by Mike Bostock, the graphics editor at the New York Times and creator of the D3 JavaScript Data Visualization Library.

This is a recreation of the famous GapMinder…

http://flpbd.it/66nDz

Comparing the Perception of Wealth Inequality in the U.S. to Reality (infosthetics.com)
Introducing the healthvis R package – one line D3 graphics with R (simplystatistics.org)
40 Amazing Yet Free Visualization Libraries: Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts (smashingapps.com)

Systems theory: foundations of business analysis

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

NASA Watching Atlantic Tropics: Katia, Tropica... — NASA Watching Atlantic Tropics: Katia, Tropical Storm Lee and System 94L [detail view] (Photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video)

Systems theory – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A core part of the theory used by the business analyst according to Michael Hugos, along with Information Theory

System Theory (2nd Reference) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com)
System Theory (Referred Article) (prerna4everything.wordpress.com)
Eyal Sulganik: Towards a Theory of “Mathematical Accounting” (gilkalai.wordpress.com)
Complexity:: understanding living systems (fitforrandomness.wordpress.com)
Projects are systems (herdingcats.typepad.com)
Entropy and randomness in communications, a quick introduction (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com)
Bertrand Duperrin: Keep IT Simple … (isismjpucher.wordpress.com)
Multiple factors, including climate change, led to collapse and depopulation of ancient Maya (esciencenews.com)
Total Quality Management Strategy (thinkingbookworm.typepad.com)

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