Mr Honner

Inforgraphic Competition

Visualisation Magazine, which seems to specialize in Data Representation and Information Graphics, is holding a homemade, handmade Infographic Contest.

The contest is apparently open to anyone, and the publishers are emphasizing handmade techniques. The winner will make the cover of the next volume of their magazine. I leafed through their volume on Circles (screenshot above) and there were some good looking infographics in there.

There is a flickr group set up for submissions, which you can check out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/vismaghandmadecontest.

By patrick honner, 16 yearsDecember 2, 2010 ago

Math Quiz: NYT Learning Network

Through Math for America, I am part of an on-going collaboration with the New York Times Learning Network. My latest contribution, a Test Yourself quiz-question, can be found here:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/test-yourself-math-dec-1-2010/

This problem was based on estimating and comparing the yearly salaries of union workers who in Pennsylvania who recently agreed to restructure their contracts.

By patrick honner, 16 yearsDecember 1, 2010 ago

Challenge

Sugary Proportion Solution

The question was posed recently: can you identify a proportion merely by looking at it?

As was pointed out by astute readers, various lighting and staging issues added a degree of uncertainty to the problem, but even so, a plurality of people were able to correctly identify the ratio of white sugar to total sugar.

As the above sequences of images suggests, the mixture was created from one part white sugar and two parts dark sugar. This makes the proportion of white sugar equal to 1/3.

Stay tuned for the next visual proportion challenge!

By patrick honner, 16 yearsNovember 30, 2010 ago

Appreciation