A logarithmic graph can also help make it clear if the apparent evening-out of the curve started to change. While a linear curve would keep on pushing ever higher regardless, the logarithmic graph would highlight any substantial changes to the trend – whether upward or downward.
In the future, the ability to leverage the power of computational modeling, artificial intelligence will facilitate a logarithmic explosion of clinically relevant correlations. This will enable discovery of new therapies and novel markers which will empower clinicians to more precisely manage risk for individuals and populations.
GDP has been used as a measure of economic growth since 1937. But the need for wellbeing metrics is bringing its relevance into question. Know what is GDP and why it matters.
These three charts show the surprising resilience of global trade by volume in the face of shocks, and how the centre of global trade gravity is shifting.
Though the quake in 2010 measured 7.0, the Richter scale is logarithmic, meaning that Saturday's earthquake released twice as much energy as the previous one. It was felt in Jamaica, more than 200 miles (320 km) away. Damage caused on Saturday so far appears less than in 2010, the reasons for which are being studied.
Cybersecurity is not just a software issue. The underlying technology on which our software runs is vulnerable, too - which is why it's time to talk about hardware security
The fact that both metrics changed exponentially can be nicely seen in this chart because both axes are logarithmic. On a logarithmic axis a measure that declines exponentially follows a straight line.
Take you back to the Middle Ages in which The homicide rate in Europe on this logarithmic scale used to be about 35 per 100,000 per year. That came down by the 20th century to something closer to 2 per 100 thousand per year, came down by a factor of 10.
In the chart below, the scale is logarithmic, so it shows the speed of decline in the price of computer processing is still exponential, in line with Moore’s Law–based on an observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965, that the density of transistors in integrated circuits (and hence computing power) would roughly double every two ...
The Energy Transition Index (ETI) benchmarks progress on energy transition in 115 countries. Previously published as the “Energy Architecture Performance Index” from 2012 – 17, the ETI 2021 is the 10th edition of the World Economic Forum’s benchmarking energy transition globally. This appendix presents the methodology and structure of the ETI.
