Government organizations love to distribute documents as PDF files. They are easy to…
Nathan Yau
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Making 10M government PDF documents searchable
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Timeline for news coverage of trans communities
The Trans News Initiative is a collaborative effort to track news coverage of…
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Epstein emails presented as a Gmail inbox
Congress released a collection of emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s inbox. However, as one…
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Visual reconstruction of flooding at Camp Mystic
The New York Times used a mix of media and data sources to…
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Scale of one trillion dollars
If Elon Musk achieves certain benchmarks for Tesla over the next decade, he…
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Claude, a year later
Last year, I documented my experience with Claude, the AI chatbot, for working with and visualizing data. It seemed like a good time to revisit.
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Scientists can track individual butterflies with tiny sensors
Monarch butterflies somehow fly from Ontario, Canada to Mexico City, but the migration…
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Name mentions in Epstein email cache
Congress released a cache of Jeffrey Epstein’s email threads. For the Wall Street…
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Troubling AI-powered toys
From the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a safety report on AI-powered…
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Shifts back to the left for Hispanic voters
In 2024, Hispanic voters in New Jersey took a hard shift to the…
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Threats to democracy in the Congressional Record
As you might imagine, the word “democracy” has been mentioned in Congressional speeches…
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Database of mound charging in baseball
Jon Bois of Secret Base is working on a documentary that covers the…
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Testing views of Earth through an LLM’s internals
Drawing inspiration from early cartographers who had to make maps with limited information,…
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Disposable insights, quickly forgotten
In this week’s Process, we work in short-term but aim for long-term.
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Shifts left for every demographic group, 2025 elections
G. Elliot Morris, for Strength in Numbers, breaks down the shift towards Democrat…
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Imagining an extreeeeeme gerrymandered future
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prevents states from discriminating by race…
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Damage by Hurricane Melissa, seen through satellite imagery
Melissa was the strongest storm to ever hit Jamaica, and the country was…
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More OpenAI circular deals
For the New York Tiems, Jacqueline Gu and Cade Metz break down the…
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China exports down in October
From Bloomberg:
China’s exports unexpectedly contracted in October as global demand failed to… -
10k bird species visualized with feathers
Jer Thorp visualized 10,151 species of birds as feathers, with colors based on…

















Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
