Happiness and meaning do not always travel together. Sometimes we need to pursue meaning without the happiness, and vice versa.
Nathan Yau
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Mixed Feelings of Happiness and Meaning
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Meaning of the Chinese New Year meal
In celebration of Chinese New Year, Julia Janicki, Daisy Chung, and Joyce Chou…
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Reservoir refills in California
There’s been a lot of rain in California, which has been good to…
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Manual removal of harmful text to train AI models
AI training data comes from the internet, and as we know but maybe…
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More Noise, Better Signal
Sometimes the noise, something we often try to minimize in data, makes for a better signal.
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Barely a map of the west coast
Barely Maps is an ongoing project by Peter Gorman that shows geographic data…
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Scrolly video JavaScript library
ScrollyVideo.js is a JavaScript library that makes it easier to incorporate videos in…
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Snow cover mapped using snowflakes
To show snow cover across the United States, Althea Archer for the USGS…
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Tracking hundreds of pizza slices
For eight years, Liam Quigley tracked every slice of pizza he ate in…
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Alternative Ways to Represent Data
We’ve seen data in many forms, but we should dig deeper into using our other senses.
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Happiness and Meaning in What We Do
There are things that make us happy. There are things where we find meaning in the everyday. What are the things that give us both?
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Origins of the world map
Mapping the entire planet is not exactly a straightforward thing to do, especially…
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Tom Brady of other jobs
Tom Brady, the quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is 45 years old,…
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Bias in AI-generated images
Lensa is an app that lets you retouch photos, and it recently added…
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Generative AI trade-offs
People have been having fun with generative AI lately. Enter a prompt and…
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Every hour tracked, for five years
In the department of tedious and thorough, Reddit user _tsweezy_ tracked every hour…
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When Americans Are Happiest
What people are doing when they are happy and not, from age 20 to 70.
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Animal extinction over time
Animals are going extinct at a faster rate. Reuters shows a developing pattern…
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Names that are more dog or more human
There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa…
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Mapping the sea floor
Jon Keegan on how USGS researchers collected data for 125 square miles of…