Tag: Science

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain, “My Autobiography” Journalists need a good understanding of numbers. Tapping into the power of data would let them create more meaningful and effective stories. But making sense of numbers can be difficult. Reporting on data is often…

Like a flower in full bloom, nature reveals its patterns shaped by mathematics. Or as particles collide with one another, they create snowflake-like fractals through emergence. How do fish swarm in schools or consciousness come about from the brain? Simulations can provide answers. Through code, you can simulate how living…

This is a concise way to make a word cloud using Python. It can teach you basics of coding while creating a nice graphic. It’s actually four lines of code, but making the word cloud only takes one line, the final one. import nltk from wordcloud import WordCloud nltk.download(“stopwords”) WordCloud(background_color=”white”,…

This course proposes a quick introduction to deep learning and two of its major networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). The purpose is to give an intuitive sense of how to implement deep learning approaches for various tasks. To use this iPython notebook, run the python…

Visualizing minerals

How things come about from different layers within systems