Google Sheets offers a wide range of chart types for you to illustrate your data with. But not any sort of data can be practically demonstrated with any chart. Of course, in theory, you can use most charts to visualize any series, but that will undermine the whole point of a chart: Making the comprehension and analysis of the data easier.
I, like most of you I’m sure, associate annotation with school. You might think of studying in the lecture hall, late-night cram sessions, or reading and rereading an assigned text over and over again. However, annotation is an incredibly useful tool. Before we dive in, here is a brief clarification on annotating versus note taking. For some, the difference is negligible, therefore the research significantly overlaps. The general consensus is that annotation takes place on the page of the book and directly interacts with the text. The Science of Annotating According to research, annotation helps with memory, comprehension, and overall understanding for what you read. The thinking behind this conclusion is that annotating the text takes effort and forces you...
Now in his sixties, synesthesia has been part of James’s life for as long as he can remember. My very first memories of sound having associated tastes and textures were during daily trips to and from pre-school on the London Underground. I was aged around four at the time, and my mother was helping me with my reading and writing, so I’d spend the journey reading out and writing down the names of the stations and their accompanying tastes as we stopped or passed through them. After that, I moved on to the overhead carriage maps. I still have some of those battered notebooks from all those years ago and the name, food and flavor matches described are exactly the...
September 9, 1960: Kathmandu hums with the discordant music of drums and flutes. People disguised as dancing deities have traveled from all over Nepal to clap and sing their way through the streets as part of a festival honoring the Hindu god Indra, revered as the king of heaven. Amid the colorful melee winds 40-year-old Brit Desmond Doig, mountaineer, journalist, and photographer for National Geographic and Life magazine. In the midst of the chaos, Doig spots a shaggy-haired wool and bamboo figure halfway between a man and an ape adorning the wall of a temple. “To the Nepali they are ‘Ban Manchhuru’,” Doig writes in the 1962 book High in the Thin Cold Air. “To our Sherpas and us… the...
One of the most beloved books in modern children’s literature is Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are.” But what exactly is a “Wild Thing,” what does Sendak’s award-winning story actually mean, and what message does it send to children? A surprisingly Jewish one. Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York in June of 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland. He declared himself to be deeply affected by the Holocaust and the death of his many family members during that time. Having been introduced to the concept of mortality at such a young age, he self-describes his childhood to have been a “terrible situation.” He found comfort in books and was inspired to illustrate after seeing Walt Disney’s...
