I happened to be travelling through Brussels, so I stopped by Ghent, the world hotspot for research into imprecise probabilities, and setup an interview with Gert de Cooman. Gert has been working...
Right now I’m working on a project that involves new ways to view units of content and the relationships between them. I’ve posted the comic I worked on, it has a number of stats references t...
https://statisticsblog.com/2014/06/12/a-new-way-to-visualize-content/
Working on a quick-and-dirty simulation of people wandering around until they find neighbors, then settling down. After playing with the coloring a bit I arrived at the above image, which I quite...
https://statisticsblog.com/2013/02/14/population-simulation-leads-to-valentines-day-art/
A couple days ago I noticed a fun piece of R code by Allan Roberts, which lets you create a digital snowflake by cutting out virtual triangles. Go give it a try. Roberts inspired me to create a w...
I recently finished work on the first issue of a graphic novel. It’s in the form of a fictional first person narrative. The story isn’t directly about statistics, but there are a few digressi...
https://statisticsblog.com/2012/10/23/comic-with-stats-discussion/
Ronald Aylmer Fisher, statistics badass. Illustration by Rachelle Scarfó for a project I was working on.
https://statisticsblog.com/2012/01/15/r-a-fisher-illustration/
Computer creations are perfect by design. We put in numbers, and if all goes well we get out an exact result. If we want a line, we want it perfectly straight. If we want a circle, it should conf...
https://statisticsblog.com/2010/09/04/weekend-art-in-r-part-4/
I have a few posts nearing completion, but meanwhile a weekend break for art. Big thanks to Simon Urbanek and Jeffrey Horner, creators of Cairo, a library for the programming language R. Have you...
https://statisticsblog.com/2010/08/21/weekend-art-in-r-part-3/
I put together four of the best looking images generated by the code shown here: # More aRt par(bg="white") par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) plot(c(0,1),c(0,1),col="white",pch=".",xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1)) ite...
https://statisticsblog.com/2010/06/26/weekend-art-in-r-part-2/