Jun 12, 2012 12:12 PM

A Random Walk with Pi

Researches have crafted one of the most elegant visualizations of π, a number with seemingly infinite decimal places. Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman shows off the images and explains how they made them.

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We've gotten really good at generating big datasets. From what we search for on Google to all the stuff we do on Facebook, we generate a lot of data. And there have in turn been a proliferation of methods of visualizing big data, slicing and dicing it and providing meaning to it.

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Samuel Arbesman is the author of The Magic of Code and is scientist in residence at Lux Capital. ... Read More

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