The Culture Section Archive - idalab

The future of AI may depend on historians and musicologists

Die Sehnsucht nach Transparenz ist eine Sehnsucht nach Begründung. Warum Algorithmen lernen sollten, eine Geschichte zu erzählen.

What do we mean by “data”?

Data journalism for the people

The defeat: In one of the best data maps ever, an entire army is wiped out

Mapping time: This map depicts 1,700 years as territory

Curves and loops: These river maps integrate geological data from several millennia

Professors invented the timeline to help students deal with complexity

Religious strategies: How to make complexity accessible in a diagram

A problem of scale: How to wrap up the history of Earth