Projects

Vis projects, small hacks, etc. Presented in no particular order.

2018-09-27 - Anscombe’s T-Rex - you never know, dinosaurs might be hiding in your summary statistics.
2018-09-13 - Yet another color demo - luminance, saturation, hue: the three main attributes we use to describe color.
2018-09-05 - Another color interpolation demo - Linear paths in different color spaces look quite different from one another.
2018-02-21 - Scales Playground - A playground to explore the behavior of different d3 scales.
Optical Illusions
2016-11-20 - The Fagan Nomogram is a great way to get better intuition for simple cases of Bayes’s Theorem.
2016-11-19 - The Bunimovich stadium is a neat dynamical system.
2016-11-12 - An illustration of the duality principle in (convex) optimization.
2016-10-11 - An illustration of how a 2x2 symmetric matrix transforms vectors via the eigendecomposition.
2016-09-15 - Color spaces: interpolation in RGB, HSL, and Lab color spaces looks quite different from each other.

Older stuff

If you take pictures of clouds from an airplane, you can see their 3D structure.
The set roots of polynomials with small integer coefficients has some incredible structure
If you stitch together 4 hours of an intercontinental flight, you get an interesting map of the US.
An exploration of the MLB Hall of Fame voting patterns.
A funny-looking, but mathematically-sound, interactive nomograph for computing Bayes’s Rule.