Co.Design has partnered with the Brooklyn design studio Hyperakt to bring you Lunch Talks, a video series of conversations with smart, creative people. Here’s the latest installment.—Eds Data ...

The sum of the probabilities of all outcomes is 1. Independent events are those not affected by a previous event. The probability of two independent events both happening is 𝑃(A and B) = 𝑃(A) × 𝑃(B ...

How do scientists diagram evolutionary relationships? Scientists represent evolutionary relationships with tree diagrams (also called cladograms) because new life forms appear the way new branches ...

The NETDRAW procedure automatically draws any acyclic network. They do not have to be representations of a project. You can also use the procedure to draw a general directed graph that has cycles, if ...

While data visualization can seem like a modern design focus, it really has its roots in the High Middle Ages when a sudden rise in information and population resulted in the need to convey ideas in ...

Phylogenies are a fundamental tool for organizing our knowledge of the biological diversity we observe on our planet. But how exactly do we understand and use these devices? Tree diagrams have been ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...