A while back I heard about the Summer Data Challenge, hosted by my university. A number of datasets are available to download and analyse, and I chose to look at data on the selling price of properties in London over the past 5 years. I’ve assembled a number of plots here in order to examine this slightly cumbersome dataset more easily.
Diseases have been in the news recently, for one reason or another, and journalists are engaged in an increasingly ridiculous race to construct the most alarming headlines possible. How about we cut through the noise and indulge in a calming bit of maths?
I remember seeing once the following photo from Flickr, and having my brain melt slightly from trying to figure out what went wrong:
The issue was the propeller was rotating as the camera detector ‘read out’, i.e. there was some motion during the exposure of the camera. This is an interesting thing to think about, lets have a look.
From a recent post I’ve had the scripts lying around to calculate the trajectories of particles around black holes. The paths were pretty crazy, which got me wondering what such a system would look like. For that I need to calculate how photons move around black holes, which is a slightly different problem, and doesn’t offer up much in the way of puns for post titles…
Almost looks like work 