Monday, February 16, 2015

Waldo, revisited

We've seen the scatterplot and marginal distributions of Waldo's location in a collection of Where's Waldo. These were from Ben Blatt at Slate.com. Now Ronald Olsen has added a plot of the contours of a kernel density estimate of the joint frequency distribution of Waldo's location on the facing pages of the Waldo books. Darker color indicates higher density. Olsen then dynamically computes the optimal search path. Try it out. Can you find Waldo quicker?


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