#logarithmic scale

Vox Distorts the Birthrate Statistics

Take a look at two charts of birthrates by age from the Institute for Family Studies (left) and the Vox article The historically low birthrate, explained in 3 charts (right):

                  The Vox chart looks nothing like the IFFS chart. First thing to notice is that the Vox chart uses a logarithmic scale, which exaggerates the growth of birthrate among women 40-44 an makes the decline in…

When I think back to being a kid, I remember how special those after-school specials and classroom documentaries felt. The lights would dim, the room would go quiet, and for a little while, you would be taken somewhere completely different. It was not flashy or fast-paced like today’s content, but it stuck with you more deeply. Lately, I’ve been drawn back to those familiar films on YouTube, and…

How can you visualize the entire observable universe in a relatively small rectangular area?

Using the logarithmic scale, as Pablo Carlos Budassi did, locating the most notable astronomical objects as far away as the edge of time. 🌌

Source (zoomable): buff.ly/3Av83hn

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This vertically oriented logarithmic map spans nearly 20 orders of magnitude, taking us from planet Earth to the edge of the Observable Universe.

The scheme locates notable astronomical objects of various scales: spacecraft, moons, planets, star systems, nearby galaxies, and notable large-scale structures are some of the objects indicated.

The graphic aims to provide a concise yet comprehensive representation of a diverse range of astronomical knowledge, incorporating visual clarity and intuitive organization.

Source: pablocarlosbudassi.com

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Ah! That is the logarithmic perspective of the universe (linked post). Im obsessing over it. I hope I can explain this well enough because the image only made me aware of this too.

It's showing what is visible to us from our viewpoint on earth, and how we are limited by this. From earth, things closer to us (like the other planets in our solar system and the sun) seem much more significant and bigger to us, and we put a lot of emphasis on how far away we are from each of these planetary bodies (notice the bottom of the picture shows a lot of space between these objects). It's inevitable for animals with a brain that works like ours to see things this way.

To the things that are further away, even though they are mostly SO MUCH bigger than our own solar system and galaxy, it's hard for us to really comprehend the scale, so we see it as smaller, distant things on the horizon. Even the web of galaxy superclusters in the observable universe is hard for us to see for what it really is. It all seems like a blur on the outskirts, like it's far away on the edge, when really most of the universe is that, and we are less than microscopic to it.

Logarithmic Scale – An Optimist’s Take on the Price of Bitcoin

04 February 2015 | Samuel Rae | newsbtc.com

By now we are all familiar with the price chart bitcoin pessimists throw at us when discussing the imminent “death” of bitcoin and the digital currency space as a whole. The classic bubble spike to above $1000 and the collapse to where we now sit just ahead of $200 does, indeed, lend credence to the suggestion that bitcoin has yet further to fall in value.

However, there is a much more logical way to chart changing values over time when looking at something like digital currency – a logarithmic chart. From a logarithmic chart, somebody looking at bitcoin price versus the US dollar can gain an added perspective. So, this said, what does the price of bitcoin versus the US dollar look like when charted logarithmically since its inception? Take a look below.

Powers of Ten™ (1977) - Directed by Charles and Ray Eames

"Powers of Ten™ takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others."