Publications by aschinchon
First Anniversary Of Ripples
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is (John von Neumann) I started this blog one year ago and the experience has been better than I could have imagine: Ripples has been viewed about 30.000 times 49 posts published (The Sound Of Mandelbrot Set was the most-viewed) R-bl...
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Maths, Music and Merkbar
Control is what we already know. Control is where we have already ventured. Control is what helps us predict the future. (Merkbar) Maths and music get along very well. Last December I received a mail from a guy called Jesper. He is one of the two members of Merkbar: a electronic music band from Denmark. As can be read in their website: Merkbar is...
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Simple Data Science Of Global Warming In KDnuggets
Would love to get a post from you for KDnuggets (Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggets President) Some days ago, Gregory Piatetsky invited me to write a post for KDnuggets. I couldn’t say no. He suggested to me some topics and I decided to experiment around climate change to demonstrate how easy is to see some evidences of this alarming menace. You can ...
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How e Can Help You To Find The Love Of Your Life
Match.com will bring more love to the planet than anything since Jesus Christ (Gary Kremen, founder of Match.com) Charlie is a brilliant 39 years old mathematician living in Massachusetts. He lives alone and has dedicated his whole life to study. He has realized lately that theorems and books no longer satisfy him. Charlie has realized that need...
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Visualizing Home Ownership With Small Multiples And R
If everybody had an ocean, across the U.S.A., then everybody’d be surfin’ like California (Beach Boys, Surfin’ U.S.A.) I was invited to write a post for Domino Data Lab, a company based in California which provides a cloud-based machine learning platform which enables companies to use the power of the cloud to build analytical projects. ...
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Mixing Waves
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; add vodka, triple sec, cranberry, and lime, and shake well; strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with orange twist (Cosmopolitan Cocktail Recipe) This is a tribute to Blaise Pascal and Joseph Fourier, two of the greatest mathematicians in history. As Pascal did in his famous triangle, I generate a ...
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The United States In Two Words
Sweet home Alabama, Where the skies are so blue; Sweet home Alabama, Lord, I’m coming home to you (Sweet home Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd) This is the second post I write to show the abilities of twitteR package and also the second post I write for KDnuggets. In this case my goal is to have an insight of what people tweet about american states. ...
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How Big Is The Vatican City?
Dici che il fiume trova la via al mare e come il fiume giungerai a me (Miss Sarajevo, U2) One way to calculate approximately the area of some place is to circumscribe it into a polygon of which you know its area. After that, generate coordinates inside the polygon and count how many of them fall into the place. The percentage of coordinates ins...
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Silhouettes
Romeo, Juliet, balcony in silhouette, makin o’s with her cigarette, it’s juliet (Flapper Girl, The Lumineers) Two weeks ago I published this post for which designed two different visualizations. At the end, I decided to place words on the map of the United States. The discarded visualization was this other one, where I place the words ove...
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Visual Complexity
Oh, can it be, the voices calling me, they get lost and out of time (Little Black Submarines, The Black Keys) Last October I did this experiment about complex domain coloring. Since I like giving my posts a touch of randomness, I have done this experiment. I plot four random functions on the form p1(x)*p2(x)/p3(x) where pi(x) are polynomials ...
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