Disfruto Acariciarte y Ponerte a Dormir

 Song 'Disfruto' from Carla Morrison: here. Beautiful and sentimental for me.

P.S. Source lyrics: musixmatch. Translation into English made by Google Translate.

2.P.S. Church with a view:

Orange Cars in The Netherlands

How the West was won and you nevertheless end up (temporarily?) with Trump? We'd better ask: how did we visualize data the past 500 years? Michael Friendly distinguishes the following eight milestones:

'High-D Vis'? This is 1975–present: High-D data visualization. Friendly about this milestone (quote page 34-35; bold by JD):

"It is harder to provide a succinct overview of the most recent developments in data visualization, because they are so varied, have occurred at an accelerated pace, and across a wider range of disciplines. It is also more difficult to highlight the most significant developments (and because we have focused on the earlier history), so there are presently areas and events unrepresented here.
With this disclaimer, a few major themes stand out:
• the development of a variety of highly interactive computer systems and more importantly,
• new paradigms of direct manipulation for visual data analysis (linking, brushing, selection, focusing, etc.)
• new methods for visualizing high-dimensional data (grand tour, scatterplot matrix, parallel coordinates plot, etc.);
• the invention of new graphical techniques for discrete and categorical data (four-fold display, sieve diagram, mosaic plot, etc.), and analogous extensions of older ones (diagnostic plots for generalized linear models, mosaic matrices, etc.) and,
• the application of visualization methods to an ever-expanding array of substantive problems and data structures.
These developments in visualization methods and techniques arguably depended on advances in theoretical and technological infrastructure. Some of these are: (a) large-scale software engineering; (b) extensions of classical linear statistical modeling to wider domains; (c) vastly increased computer processing speed and capacity, allowing computationally intensive methods and access to massive data problems.
In turn, the combination of these themes and advances now provides some solutions for earlier problems."

I've no idea in which category this visualization (What colour do cars have in The Netherlands in year 2022) falls - it was already used by the CBS in 1961 - but I think it is very strong:

Source 1: Michael Friendly, 'Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization'  (2009). Here 

Source 2: Statistics Netherlands (CBS), 'The Netherlands in numbers: infographics inspired by 36 questions'. Year 2022. Here

In Between

Probably Lonely

Answers from smartass students on test questions:

 P.S. Source: here.

Symphony in Blue

 Art from Pol Ledent (Belgian, born 1952):

 

When I Least Expect

 Two Brooke Hampton quotes I like very much (source: here; I added the color 'blue'):

P.S. Picture on the background is not from Brooke. I added the ancient Egyptian goddess Nut because she is the mother of the sky (I wrote about her before in 7-2017 in post 'Stars That Know No Rest'). Image: an individual homo sapiens on planet Earth looking at the sky on a clear night. Everything on planet Earth takes place under her wings and body of stars. She makes the sun rise every day by giving birth to it. And she makes the sun go down by swallowing it in the evening. And at night? Then the sun travels through her body. She is the mother of everything in the sky.

Linger Into Dawn

 

P.S. Song 'You Dream' (2022) by Isobel Waller-Bridge and Tara Nome Doyle: here.

Black Fly in Your Chardonnay

Sometimes - only sometimes - I receive a response to one of my Wedneyday blogposts.  A thank you for something well written or an angle (s)he had never thought of before. But mostly a reply because my post brought up a good memory.

You are gone. Now that you are gone. Isn't it ironic that no one will ever read the most beautiful, most honest, most revealing, most horney, most close, most … - there must be more - letters that I wrote to you? Isn't it ironic ... don't you think?

P.S. Song 'Ironic' by Alanis Morissette: here.

Comprehensive

For the next five (5) weeks no letter from me. Summer holiday!

My reading list for this summer:

• Kahn (revised and updated 1996) #history #cryptology
• Tavares (2012). Original title 'Aprender a rezar na Era da Técnica' (2007). #culturalcritic
• Purcell (2017) #countryhouses #books
• Fresco (2022) #history #russia

 

Something else. I loved watching these Going Dutch videos with a mix of shame, being proud, and recognition. Does your country have videos like these too?

• DUTCH humour: FUNNY or NOT? The last still is pointing at "Was sich liebt, das neckt sich." It's a saying in German. Freely translated: when you love each other then you tease each other.
  
• HOW to DEAL with the DUTCH?
  
• Culture SHOCK: a DUTCH PARTNER !?

Simplicity

  

 

P.S. Art from Julian Merrow-Smith from Bédoin (Vaucluse), France. His website: here.