vicapow/explained-visually

Explained Visually is an experiment in making hard ideas intuitive.

See the live site at setosa.io/ev.

Feel free to post more topic ideas as issues.

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The code here is quite outdated. You'll need to do the following to get things working again.

• Only use version of NodeJS v9.x You may need to also use rosetta if you're using an M1 chip. You can do this using NVM see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67254339/nvm-install-node-fails-to-install-on-macos-big-sur-m1-chip

• Ensure you're using the npm version from nvm used to install node v9 when you run npm install

To get setup with the project locally, you'll need to first run

npm install

Then, fire up the testing web server

node server.js --dev=true

And also gulp in a seperate terminal tab

gulp

Now you can open up a browser at http://localhost:3000/ev/ to see the site.

To deploy, I run gulp --no-watch to make sure all the static resources are up to date. then make export to copy all the static files from _static to the setosa site.

List of possible topics.

Topic ideas

• Logarithms
• Log scales
• Taylor Series
• Div Grad Curl
• Finite State Transducer

Transforms

• Function transforms (Z, Laplace, Fourier)
• Moment Generating Function
• Fourier Series
• Partial Differential Equations (all about flows and waves)

Linear Systems

• Determinant
• Eigenvalue And Eigenvectors
• Ordinary Differential Equations
• Birth-death Process (relates to markov chains)

Statistics

• Gini Coeffient
• Statistical Significance
• Bayes' Theorem
• Regression (with instramental variables)
• Why most published research findings are false (would include statistical significance)

Chaos (Non-linear Systems)

• Feigenbaum Constants
• Lorenz system

Wildcards

• Map projections
• Theory Of Relativity

Machine Learning

• Logistic regression