18 September 2013

Map of Europe: 1000 AD to present day

The video entitled Map of Europe: 1000 AD to present day is impressive. It would, I find, have been even better if it showed the date on which each series of geopolitical changes unfolded.

Now wouldn't it be fascinating to have a map like that displaying the languages spoken across Europe (or any other large landmass) over the decades and centuries?

How to help your readers' intuition, or lack thereof, when talking about probabilities

Bayes' famous theorem is widely regarded as the most important theorem in statistics. But that doesn't mean that it is easy to under...