In Honor of Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals on the Web -Julia Set, set to the video of Jonathan Coultron's "Mandelbrot Set", +more

It must be true : (

The NY Times reports that Benoit Mandelbrot has died at age 85. According to the Times, he passed away on Thursday October 14, 2010, at a hospice in Cambridge, Mass. He had suffered from pancreatic cancer, the same disease that took the life of another one of my inspirational heroes, HCI researcher and computer scientist, Randy Pausch.

"A music video for Jonathan Coulton's song Mandelbrot Set by Pisut Wisessing made in Film 324: Cornell Summer Animation Workshop, taught by animator Lynn Tomlinson every summer for Cornell's summer session, in the department of Theatre, Film & Dance." -Summerkitechenstudio YouTube Channel 

I was hoping against hope that the news of Mandelbrot's passing was just a rumor designed by some graduate students to study fractal patterns of social networking. My hunch was a long shot, and I was wrong.

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Mandelbrot's seminal book, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982)



Wikipedia:  Fractals
(lots of pictures & animations)
Fractal Generating Software

A few examples of Fractals, from a Google image search

The new iPhone icons can speak: "Voiceover" makes it accessible to people with vision impairments - Via David Pogue

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This is good news. According to David Pogue, in his Pogue's Posts column in the New York Times, "You’d never suspect that the iPhone 3GS, which has no physical keys at all, is one of the easiest smartphones in the world for a blind person to use. But now it’s true, thanks to VoiceOver."

Apple is mindful of people with disabilities. The virtual tour of the new 3GS has a closed-captioned option.

The iPhone 3GS. I want one.

Interactive Data Visualization Online: NY Times Examples

All of Inflation's Little Parts

This interactive data visualization can be found in the on-line version of the New York Times.










This is what you see in the zoom view.













For those of you interested in sports data, here an interactive chart about Tiger Woods:

How Woods Wins a Major







If you look closely, the data that relates from the various years is brushed to a fader shade. By clicking on various years, you can look at patterns and trends in the data, and see how Tiger did in the various areas.












Links via Ranjit S. Mathoda: When will blogs start presenting data using interactive visuals alongside their stories?

Update 6/3/08: Another InfoGraphic from the New York Times, via Randy Krum: