Math professor Rich McLaughlin has spent years convincing people to come teach at UNC-Chapel Hill for less pay. For decades, Carolina has been able to count on faculty accepting a smaller paycheck ...

Use Python to make your data visualizations stand out.

When Eric Weber, professor and chair of mathematics at Iowa State University, talks about data science with future math ...

Scales map a dimension of abstract data to a visual representation. Although most often used for encoding data as position, say to map time and temperature to a horizontal and vertical position in a ...

The PGA Tour has launched a new feature called TourCast Range, allowing fans to view player practice sessions. This interactive tool provides data for each shot, including distance, ball speed, and ...

The dearth of new greenfield mines – particularly copper – has been a problem for the industry for decades. A new study by the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute provides stark ...

This package implement the clustering algorithm described by Alex Rodriguez and Alessandro Laio (2014). It provides the user with tools for generating the initial rho and delta values for each ...

We all know the truism “Correlation doesn’t imply causation,” but when we see lines sloping together, bars rising together, or points on a scatterplot clustering, the data practically begs us to ...

As it turns out, our personalities are, in fact, shaped by the environments we grow up in, and Nevada, New York, South Dakota, and Texas contain the highest percentages of those in possession of “dark ...

The 2025 Masters Tournament will feature expanded coverage and new digital features. Fans will have access to live shot tracking data from the driving range, including distance, speed and trajectory.

Abstract: Given a scatterplot with tens of thousands of points or even more, a natural question is which sampling method should be used to create a small but “good” scatterplot for a better ...