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12 Visualizations That Will Change the Way You View Scale in Your World. Scale is a simple concept. From a very early age, children know about big and small, heavy and light, more and less. Extreme scales, however, are another story. Try to imagine, for example, the size of the universe… or $1 trillion made up entirely of dollar bills. Exactly. Grasping the actual quantities involved in extreme scales can be difficult, which makes managing scale in visualizations an interesting problem. Below are 12 visualizations that try to show things at extreme scales. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Infographic originally published on Mashable.com. 10. xkcd’s creator, Randall Munroe seems to enjoy visualizations of scale. 11. 12.

Humans all fit within a small range of sizes, weights, and lifespans, and the quantities we deal with typically fit in small ranges as well. Drew Skau is a PhD Computer Science Visualization student at UNCC, with an undergraduate degree in Architecture. Learn something new every day - Memrise.

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Action Science Explorer (Formerly iOpener Workbench) Latest News January 2012. Our paper on Action Science Explorer was accepted by JASIST, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. See the Publications section below for more details. December 2011. Action Science Explorer was featured in a NSF Discoveries report, "A New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient" (pdf). July 2010. The iOpener Workbench has been renamed Action Science Explorer (ASE). Description The goal of the iOpener project is to generate readily-consumable surveys of different scientific domains and topics, targeted to different audiences and levels. Action Science Explorer is partially an integration of two powerful existing tools the SocialAction network analysis tool and the JabRef reference manager.

These tools are linked together to form multiple coordinated views of the data. There are other coordinated views that provide the user with other aspects of the field. Data & Summarization Video Demonstration Software. InstaGrok | A new way to learn. ChronoZoom. Search Tools. World History : HyperHistory. OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer.

Fractaltastic Evolution | PLOS Biologue. Hello there! If you enjoy the content on PLOS Biologue, consider subscribing for future posts via email or RSS feed. One of the iconic metaphors of evolution is that of the ‘tree of life’ – it is the image we all have for how species relate to each other in evolutionary time. In a perspective article last year, David Penny (one of our editorial board) points out that this is originally a biblical phrase and not, as is sometimes assumed, one that was coined by Darwin. He also argues that Darwin’s use of this phrase has often been misinterpreted. “buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications” It is, as the authors acknowledge, not perfect but that’s not the point.

Khan Academy. Piotr Wozniak. Formazione on line. Un'opportunità professionale per lo Psicologo? Learn. Together. Joomla! Elements and Standards Learning Tool. In this section, we offer an interactive model which details the analysis and assessment of reasoning, and enables you to apply the model to real life problems. On this page we introduce the analysis and assessment of reasoning. To skip this introduction and go directly to the model, see the links near the bottom of this page. Why the Analysis of Thinking Is Important Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed, or downright prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought.

Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life. All Thinking Is Defined by the Eight Elements That Make It Up Eight basic structures are present in all thinking: Whenever we think, we think for a purpose within a point of view based on assumptions leading to implications and consequences. The Pattern Seekers | Hybrid Reality.