Observable, known for visualization-centric notebooks to share code, restarted fresh to adjust for…
Nathan Yau
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Observable notebooks get a rewrite
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India enlists 3 million people to count the full population
Due to Covid, India’s census count is overdue by five years. But they’re…
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Cooling down less in the evening
The summer of 2026 will most likely be the hottest summer on record…
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Uncounted heat-related deaths
The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention count causes of death, and…
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Map of flood in Nepal
For the New York Times, Pablo Robles, Leanne Abraham, and Josh Holder mapped…
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Darth Vader makes the case for Flock cameras
Flock Safety has been getting some hate lately, because as it turns out,…
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A third of new webpages written with AI
It is trivial to generate bodies of text on infinite topics, so of…
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Amazon shutting down Mechanical Turk
Annie Palmer for CNBC:
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Visualization tools, datasets, and resources — August 2026 roundup
Here is what happened in August.
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When politicians turned against data centers
For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill analyzed newsletters and social media posts…
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Mathematical rivers
There is a simple law from John Hack that says the length of…
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Why Americans are not working
Older people are working later in life and younger people are not entering the labor force as early.
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Trustworthy data visualization
Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture…
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Steep rise in electric vehicle sales
For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad Plumer report on the…
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How the U.S. national debt got to $40 trillion
When you spend more than you make, you get debt. For the Washington…
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Seeing data from different perspectives
This week is about changing perspectives so we can find and visualize new insights.
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Google buys Spirit Airlines data in bankruptcy sale
Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data.…
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Trillions of dollars in AI spending not in the balance sheet yet
For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the…
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Amazon buying rare books in bulk for training
Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI…
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Tariff avoidance in solar manufacturing from China
To avoid heavy solar tariffs, China allegedly moved manufacturing to other countries. When…















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