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Jessica Hagy is our guest blogger during the week of March 3rd. If you have any questions for Jessica Hagy, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about Indexed:
A unique, hilarious take on the modern world
Jessica Hagy is a different kind of thinker. She has an astonishing talent for visualizing relationships, capturing in pictures what is difficult for most of us to express in words.
At indexed.blogspot.com, she posts charts, graphs, and Venn diagrams drawn on index cards that reveal in a simple and intuitive way the large and small truths of modern life.
Praised throughout the blogosphere as “brilliant,” “incredibly creative,” and “comic genius,” Jessica turns her incisive, deadpan sense of humor on everything from office politics to relationships to religion.
With new material along with some of Jessica’s greatest hits, this utterly unique book will thrill readers who demand humor that makes them both laugh and think.
About Jessica Hagy
Indexed
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Book: Paperback | 7.00 x 5.00in | 96 pages | ISBN 9780142005200 | 28 Feb 2008 | Studio | Adult
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Podcast?
Will you be recording a podcast for the Penguin Podcast?
Inverse Functions
Hi Jessica,
Indexed is wonderful - keep up the good work!
I had a question for you:
Sometimes your axes have the dependent variable on the horizontal axis and the independent variable vertical on the vertical axis, math-style. Other times the axes they are inverted, economics-style. (And of course, it's wonderfully ambiguous which it is supposed to be). Do you have a preference for one or the other, or why do you switch it around?
Thanks!
Great stuff
I had the pleasure of being turned on to this by Jessica herself! I can tell you that her talent is only scratched in this work. There is SO much more to come from her.
I was so thrilled to get my book in the mail. Yeah for Amazon Pre-Order!
Love It
I've been reading Indexed for a good while now and have really enjoyed the seeing the world explained through math. Thanks Jessica!
Long Time Reader
I have been reading Indexed for quite some time now. Her Venn Diagrams and other charts and graphs are the perfect response to the Algeba I student's question, "When will I ever use this in real life?"
This book will be a gifting favorite of mine.
Nathanael Snow
Unique and inciteful perspective
I have been aware of Jesicca and indexed since she was mentioned on the now defunct Penn Radio show. I am of a mathematical bent, so the use of these venn diagrams for presenting "regular" world relationships is spot on.
Keep it up, Jesicca.
By the book, everyone.
Your curves
It seems that your curves are always convex. Why is that?
The curves are convex
The curves are convex (usually) to represent the law of averages.
A scatter-plot would work for most of the curved graphs, but a curve seems more intuitive.