Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Charles Joseph Minard
Minard was a pioneer of the use of graphics in engineering and statistics. He is famous for his Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'Armée Française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813, a flow map published in 1869 on the subject of Napoleon's disastrous Russian Campaign of 1812. The graph displays several variables:
- the army's location and direction, showing where units split off and rejoined
- the declining size of the army (note e.g. the crossing of the Berezina River on the retreat)
- the low temperatures during the retreat.
This map using pie charts represents the cattle sent from all around France for consumption in Paris (1858).
Charles Joseph Minard was a master of using simple sizes to indicate relationships. In this map, as with his famous chart of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, Minard expertly relates the volume of tonnage shipped through European ports and on European rivers to the size of the lines and circles representing them.
Source
Source
Monday, June 27, 2011
Libyan Rebels: A Sound Track In Misurata, fighters turn to Pink Floyd in their war against Qadaffi.
"MANY MEN HAVE psyched themselves up for war by listening to rock and roll or heavy metal. But how many have sung Pink Floyd’s “Mother” within earshot of the enemy in the dead of night? “When it got really quiet, we’d play guitar and sing ‘Mother, do you think they’ll drop the bomb?’” said Abdulfatah Shaka, 22, his rocket-propelled-grenade launcher at his side. “The snipers would get furious and start shooting everywhere.” ...Continued
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The Possible Irrelevance of NATO
Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Wikilinks
The inside story of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange
and the largest intelligence breach in U.S. history
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Getting bin Laden (5 Parts)
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Iraqi History Preservation
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)