Data+viz @netflix. I try to make fun things on the internet. Code, graphics, data, journalism, etc. Previously: @datanews @bbcnewsgraphics @veltman@vis.social
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Was wondering what the most extensive "Controversies" section on Wikipedia is and depending on how you tally it I think it's either the BBC, Wells Fargo, or KPMG
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"if your request for JSON is too formal, it might just scream whitespace into the void forever" is a very funny era of computing
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Was wondering "did the Warriors have as many late-game collapses as it felt like this year" so I charted each postseason team's losses by their peak win probability during the game (answer: yeah pretty much)
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I really thought I had seen it all for nerdy license plates in the Bay and then I saw the Unicode for the 🚗 emoji
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This file is like the Picture of Dorian Gray, a grotesquerie absorbing all the web's sins. Needless to say I love it!!
Looking at this file from WebKit may change how you think about web browsers 😅
github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blo…
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What movie had the most impressive cast that was only impressive in retrospect (i.e. they weren't big stars at the time but went on to stardom)? Thinking about how The Outsiders had young Tom Cruise, young Patrick Swayze, young Rob Lowe, etc.
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Realizing that an auto-expiring list is what I need everywhere—articles to read, shows to watch, recipes to cook, emails, etc.—probability that I'll ever get to it drops steeply with time and quickly approaches zero, untouched items should just drop off after a month
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Goodreads but it takes the hint when I repeatedly pass over the three-volume biography of Teddy Roosevelt in favor of another book about outer space or the internet
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hmm a spreadsheet with cells that can die from neglect feels like it could be an @rsnous thing
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Semantle but instead you guess a Wikipedia page and it tells you how many links away from the answer it is
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