Archive for art
Madam President [alt reality]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel with tags alternate history, art, civil rights, cover, Kadir Nelson, Kamala Harris, The New Yorker, Together Against Trump, US elections 2024, US history on January 20, 2025 by xi'an
warming stripes [but 1d]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags art, climate change, data graphics, Ed Hawkins, extreme temperatures, fresque, heating, Ian Davenport, Little Ice Age, University of Reading, University of Warwick, Zeeman building on April 15, 2024 by xi'an
Just recently, I came across this representation of the (global) temperature rise over the period 1850-2020, made by Professor Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading. It is powerful, artsy, reminding me of the Everything mural in the Zeeman Building at the University of Warwick, and visually most appealing, as a poster about the urgency for action, but it nonetheless remain a poor statistical graph in that it is a 2d presentation of a 1d dataset, the time series of the yearly average temperatures, missing the opportunity to exploit the second axis by eg taking a stripe of the Earth from South Pole to North Pole or the daily temperature throughout the year. And it is also lacking a scale, not only by omitting the dates on the first axis, but also by choosing an arbitrary if dramatic colour range [unable to incorporate the so-far ultimate 2023?!] (And with the visual appeal comes the danger of turning it into yet another marketing gimmick, hence cancelling its message.)
double-parked [cover]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags art, beach, bicycle, biking, cover, Fort Tilden beach, New York city, Rockaways, summer, The New Yorker on August 24, 2022 by xi'an
Parasite in chief [verbatim]
Posted in Statistics with tags America, art, baby Trump, cliffs, culture, Donald Trump, Dover cliffs, films, Gone With the Wind, hocus potus, Korea, Oscars (Academy Awards), Parasite, racism, slavery, South Korea, Together Against Trump, US politics, US presidents on March 9, 2020 by xi'an
““How bad were the Academy Awards this year? Did you see? And the winner is a movie from South Korea. What the hell was that all about? We’ve got enough problems with South Korea, with trade. On top of it, they give them the best movie of the year? Was it good? I don’t know. Can we get, like, ‘Gone With the Wind’ back, please?” DT, 20022020
digital humanities meet artificial intelligence [course]
Posted in Statistics with tags art, artificial intelligence, cartography, computer vision, course, digital humanities, history of art, master class, Paris Sciences et Lettres, PSL, Université Paris Dauphine on December 6, 2019 by xi'an
Paris Sciences & Lettres University (PSL) is organising next semester a special one-week training on the topic “Digital Humanities Meet Artificial Intelligence”. This course is open to Master and PhD students, as well and researchers, subject to availability (and free). This intensive training will cover theoretical, numerical and applicative topics at the intersection between both fields. The dates are March 30-April 3, 2020, the course is located in downtown Paris, and the pre-registration form is already on-line. The courses are given by
- Léa Saint-Raymond, Quantitative data analysis and cartography
- Mathieu Aubry, Computer vision for humanities
- Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, History of art and AI
- Jean-Baptiste Camps, NLP for humanities
- Galla Topalian and Matthieu Husson, History of art and AI
