I love Science Kid / Adoro Science Kid

Sing! Canta! I Love Charts I like checking out charts ’cause a chart’s cool. A chart is a handy dandy scientific tool. It gives you information you can see with your eyes. A chart makes you visualize. You get the picture, so do I. May I please call your attention to this weather chart, I tell you this chart is a work of art. I see clouds on Friday, and rain on Monday, and good there’s gonna be sun on Sunday. I like checking out charts ’cause a chart’s cool. A chart is a handy dandy scientific tool. It gives you information you can see with your eyes. A chart makes you visualize. You get the picture, so do I. How many kids like a dog or a cat? Who wears a hoodie and who wears a hat? Making a chart of what people eat? Some charts look like a pie and you know that’s sweet. I like checking out

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Cartograms map the real world/ I cartogrammi mappano il mondo reale

(EN) What happens when a thematic mapping variable is substituted for land area? You have the great collaborative work of the people behind Worldmapper: they developed an algorithm that allows you to see the world and the various sizes of the country therein, through various statistics. The results are comparable maps (cartograms)  whose geometry or space is distorted in order to convey the information of a chosen variable. I’m talking about this project today because they’ve just published a book  called The Atlas of the Real World with 366 cartograms providing a  useful reference on how regions and countries compare in resources, production, consumption, and many other topics. ———— (IT) Cosa succede quando una variabile tematica va a sostituire il numero che determina la superficie di un paese in una mappa? Si crea un progetto collaborativo tra geografi, matematici e statistici, di cui non potremmo più fare a meno: Worldmapper. Insieme hanno creato un algoritmo che permette la creazione di

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