Monthly Archives: January 2009

How big is Nymphenburg Park?

Posted on January 18, 2009 by xan

Nymphenburg Palace in Munich was the featured picture at Wikipedia recently, but what caught my eye was the area values given for the palace park in the caption: “200-hectare (494-acre) park.” That looks like a case where a unit conversion … Continue reading →

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Burtin Antibiotic Illustrations

Posted on January 11, 2009 by xan

CHANCE magazine is running a contest to create the best illustration for a data set of the effectiveness of three antibiotics on sixteen strains of bacteria. Designer Will Burtin used this data set for a 1950s visualization. With only five … Continue reading →

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