#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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How Log Scales Translate to Linear Scale
How log scales translates to linear scales is just like really important across a bunch of contexts. I think another great example I forgot to mention is Carl Sagan's idea of a cosmic calendar and episode of his show cosmos. It doesn't compromise on the scale and it shows you that things are just mind-boggling. Some things are really bad. Yeah people I guess listening can google if the moon were only one pixel which is exactly the thing you mentioned but just on your browser where you just scroll to the right. Oh yeah I remember this being like almost logic for a studio amount of time you had to spend like browse like just scrolling through the pagebut I think it's a good example
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