2024

A decade and a half ago, I wrote the first edition of Visualize…

NatureQuant processes and analyzes satellite imagery to quantify people’s access to nature. They…

People need a sense of how distributions work before they can make sense of a histogram. Here’s how I (try to) make these misunderstood charts easier to read.

As you might expect, the path of totality brought increased activities as people…

From xkcd, a Rube Goldberg machine that keeps on going. Edit a cell…

Maybe you heard there’s a total eclipse happening today. AirDNA mapped Airbnb occupancy…

The easystats R package in on my to-try list.
easystats is a collection…

Show all the data at once so that you can see a full trend efficiently, but show a bit at a time and show how the data builds.

Joanie Lemercier used a grid of spinning paddles that turn with the wind.…

Alexander Miller wrote a “fable of emergence” that combines Conway’s Game of Life…

It continues to get easier to take someone’s face and put that person…

OpenAI previewed Voice Engine, a model to generate voices that mimic, using just…

For Knowing Machines, an ongoing research project that examines the innards of machine…

Alasdair Rae outlines the basics of visualizing basketball shot data with QGIS, an…

I collect visualization tools and learning resources and then round them up at the end of each month. Here’s the good stuff for March.

Satellite imagery on its own can be limited in what it can say…

This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from…

To gain a better understanding of how ChatGPT works under the hood, Santiago…

Alec Singh added another dimension to Conway’s Game of Life for a pretty,…