How often do you visit Turbulence.org? If not too often, now would be a good time. Recently, the New York new media organization launched "The Secret Life of Numbers" by Golan Levin with assistance from Martin Wattenberg, Jonathan Feinberg, David Becker, David Elashoff and Shelley Wynecoop. Fun for math geeks everywhere, "The Secret Life of Numbers" is about the popularity of numerals. Using custom software, popular search engines and statistical tools, the artists surveyed the public to understand what integers were the most favored, as if members of a boy band. Rather than just present cold statistics, though, the artists give site visitors an interactive visualization. Who said numbers weren't cool?
Rhizome Editorial
Editor:
Editorial Fellows:
Louis Doulas, Yin Ho
Research Assistant:
Alex Freedman
Poetry Editor:
Brian Droitcour
Editor-at-Large:
Karen Archey
Contributing Writers:
Orit Gat, Jason Huff, Jacob Gaboury, Sarah Hromack, Ceci Moss, Ed Halter
by
Brian Droitcour
on May 8th, 2012
by
Rhizome
on May 7th, 2012
