Believed to be Michelangelo’s first easel painting, completed when he was 12 or 13. Based largely on an engraving by Martin Schongauer, down to the demon’s whiskered asshole:...
After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists,...
From the moment of his arrival in Arles, on 8 February 1888, Van Gogh was constantly preoccupied with the representation of “night effects”. In April 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo: “I need a starry night with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat.” In June, he confided to the painter Emile Bernard: “But...
It was at the age of 25 when Joseph’s love for the craft blossomed. As a creative and struggling actor in Los Angeles, he found art as a way to express himself freely. Painting became his way of being creative in a buzzing city and being grounded and mentally refreshed. After a year of trial and error and honing his technical...
Part of the Hyperrealistic Art Movement beginning in the 1970s in America and Britain, this sculpture is on display at the Saatchi Gallery of London....
Logsdail didn’t fit in a camp of his time. He painted en plain air like the Impressionists, but was dedicated to picture-perfect renderings, something that was possible because of emerging technologies of the industrial age. It’s so precise I would guess it was projection-aided, but I’m not sure if that was available at...
Here’s the summary from the Tate Modern Art Museum (available here www.tate.org.uk/art/…/meireles-babel-t14041). I have modified some of it to read easier, and supply context....
This painting is part of the Regency Girls series. For this series Paul looks back at artists such as Thomas Gainsborough and tries to create a different take on classical pieces. Paul uses his signature brush marks and rich palette to give these traditional pieces a modern edge....
Right. Magically, everyone on the Internet has become infatuated with communism out of thin air over the last few years. Must just be my paranoia to surggest influence from a hostile government.
Lemmy is whatever we make it, except for the communism posts that love communism until they realize workers need representation. I half believe those are Chinese bots or high school kids who are stupid enough to believe the Chinese bots.
Header text say “statisticians be like” and then there’s a bunch of graphs and shit, then bottom text is all like “yeah this may or may not happen, idk”
Let’s say you want to know how an ad has affected your sales since it was released 3 months ago.
You could put every single sale as a dot on a graph, but it probably wouldn’t mean anything. Even if it showed the dots gradually getting higher on the chart. Was that caused by the ad or does it happen every year at the se time? What other factors could have caused this.
So I’ll pause right there and say you will never know. You will never know all the forces that affect trends. You can get relatively close, but not. Does weather affect your sales? Delivery time? Internet sentiment?
So that’s not very scientific, right? You need to know and control all variables to test an outcome.
Anyway, so you have a graph with dots and it may or may not mean anything. You think, ok what was last year’s sales during these same 3 months?
So you get last year’s data and plot the sales as dots in a different color. Now you have a graph with a ton of dots of two colors, and best case scenario: the dots for this year are higher than last year.
Is it responsible to stop there? If it were me, and my money, I’d want to make sure. So then you’d compare data from two years ago. Now you have a chart with three colors of dots.
Again, best case, this year is higher than that year too. However, as always is the case, the dots are getting difficult to understand, especially for people that don’t know anything about data. You need to make things simple to digest.
So you say “I’ll make an average of each month” and that will show how the averages are getting bigger, compared to previous years. Great!
So you average all the dots by month and plot them on a graph, and it looks great. But there are a few months that don’t prove what you saw in the raw data. For instance, one month, two years ago, you landed a big contract and sold an astronomical number of units. So that month is the biggest one of all.
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Ok, no problem, you’ll just remove those two data points, because they are skewing the day. Again, this is best case. Most of the time you will not be sure if these data points are errors in the data or Genuine sales. But anyway…
Luckily there is a method for removing “outliers” it’s called standard deviation, and it’s basically an equation that figures out what is an acceptable outlier and what isn’t.
Again, I’ll pause here to point out how unscientific this is. You are removing data because it doesn’t follow the trend you want to show. And this is a perfectly acceptable practice in data analytics. And I’ll point out something else, what was the affect of those contracts on your normal business sales? Did you make relatively less sales because of it? Is it responsible to completely remove those sales? Is it ethical?
And this is all very minor stuff in analytics. The more detailed the question, the more the data is “cleansed” by equations that get progressively more complicated - the more ethically vague the data is.
I support you, Cleetus! (lemmy.ml)
The Torment of Saint Anthony - Michelangelo (1488) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Believed to be Michelangelo’s first easel painting, completed when he was 12 or 13. Based largely on an engraving by Martin Schongauer, down to the demon’s whiskered asshole:...
The Church at Auvers - Van Gogh (1890) (cdn.mediatheque.epmoo.fr)
After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists,...
Starry Night Over the Rhone - Vincent van Gough (1888) (cdn.mediatheque.epmoo.fr)
From the moment of his arrival in Arles, on 8 February 1888, Van Gogh was constantly preoccupied with the representation of “night effects”. In April 1888, he wrote to his brother Theo: “I need a starry night with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat.” In June, he confided to the painter Emile Bernard: “But...
Pfff, HTML (files.catbox.moe)
Identitychrist - Joseph Lee (2018) (www.minus37.com)
It was at the age of 25 when Joseph’s love for the craft blossomed. As a creative and struggling actor in Los Angeles, he found art as a way to express himself freely. Painting became his way of being creative in a buzzing city and being grounded and mentally refreshed. After a year of trial and error and honing his technical...
Symphony in White, No. 1 - James McNeill Whistler (1862) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Openly mocked by the audience at the first Salon des Refuses in 1863, Whistler’s vision of “art for art’s sake” did not go over well at that time....
Man on bench - Duane Hanson (1977) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Part of the Hyperrealistic Art Movement beginning in the 1970s in America and Britain, this sculpture is on display at the Saatchi Gallery of London....
St Paul's and Ludgate Hill - William Logsdail (1887) (visualelsewhere.files.wordpress.com)
Logsdail didn’t fit in a camp of his time. He painted en plain air like the Impressionists, but was dedicated to picture-perfect renderings, something that was possible because of emerging technologies of the industrial age. It’s so precise I would guess it was projection-aided, but I’m not sure if that was available at...
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 - Ilya Repin (1885) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Aside...
Babel - Cildo Meireles (2001) (media.tate.org.uk)
Here’s the summary from the Tate Modern Art Museum (available here www.tate.org.uk/art/…/meireles-babel-t14041). I have modified some of it to read easier, and supply context....
If you haven't read it, Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film Is a great insight into Horror Cinema. (en.wikipedia.org)
This book is taught in many film schools as its implications extends the bounds of horror....
Regency Girl 2 - Paul Wrigh (2021) (images.saatchiart.com)
This painting is part of the Regency Girls series. For this series Paul looks back at artists such as Thomas Gainsborough and tries to create a different take on classical pieces. Paul uses his signature brush marks and rich palette to give these traditional pieces a modern edge....
It's the most wonderful time of the year. (i.imgflip.com)
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
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So you're saying there's a chance? (lemmy.world)
Header text say “statisticians be like” and then there’s a bunch of graphs and shit, then bottom text is all like “yeah this may or may not happen, idk”
What's your movie pitch idea?
What movie do you want made? If you got a pitch meeting with a producer and a guaranteed green light, what would you say?
Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km.. (lemmy.ca)
What's the best question to ask someone who you don't know very well?