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So what’s the essence of what’s going on? I’m going to concentrate here on biological evolution, though much of what I’ll discuss is also relevant to machine learning—but I’ll plan to explore that in more detail elsewhere. Tags: evolution , machine learning , modeling , Stephen Wolfram

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

There is going to be a solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The moon will only partially block out the sun in most areas (if at all), but for a select few in the right path, it’ll go all dark for a few minutes. Tags: Andy Woodruff , eclipse Andy Woodruff mapped the path of full eclipse-ness.

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MARCH 15, 2024

On April 8, 2024, the moon is going to completely block the sun along a designated path. Tags: eclipse , satellite imagery , Washington Post For the Washington Post, Dylan Moriarty and Kevin Schaul use a strip of satellite imagery to show the totality across the United States, with events and time along the way.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

For Bloomberg, Rachael Dottle and Leslie Kaufman go with the combo stacked area chart and stacked bar chart on the top and bottom to show increased cost of billion dollar disasters and the counts over time. Tags: Bloomberg , budget , disaster , government It looks like the sporadic tropical cyclones are causing the most damage.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The dolphins go, too, using their exceptionally flexible bodies and echolocation clicks to navigate a maze of submerged greenery. Researchers who study the dolphins typically use boats to follow and sometimes tag […] In the wet season, water spills from the rivers, flooding parts of the forests.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

There’s still a long way to go before AI is reliable enough to analyze and make sense of data. Tags: AI , journalism , tools Or at least use more AI-ish things. A lot of these things still feel like half-baked gimmicks.

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MARCH 4, 2024

For Bloomberg, Denise Lu shows where, when, and how the eclipse will go down across the United States. Tags: Bloomberg , eclipse The next one isn’t until 2045, so if you don’t want to wait two decades, now’s your chance.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

But what’s going on in Montana and Arizona? Tags: Big Mac , cost , McDonald's I assume shipping to Hawaii and Alaska brings prices up in those states. Based on Regional Price Parity , Montana tends to cost less compared to the national average, and Arizona is right in the middle.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

The moon is going to get in the way of the sun this Saturday. Tags: eclipse , New York Times , solar For The New York Times, Jonathan Corum has the map of when and how much sun coverage we’ll see in the western hemisphere.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This American Life tells the tales as old as time : When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. Tags: love , This American Life One says, wait for that lightning-strike magic. The other says, make a calculation and choose the best option available. Who has it right?

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MARCH 1, 2024

He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share Thirty years. Tags: geology , Harry Young , physical , Scotland He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing. I’m a sucker for slow data collection and physical visualization.

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APRIL 1, 2024

This is why advocating for dataset transparency is so important if AI systems are ever going to be accountable for their impacts in the world. Tags: bias , Knowing Machines , LAION-5B , machine learning If articles covering similar themes have confused you or were too handwavy, this one might clear that up.

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APRIL 19, 2023

But you don’t know how to program or you do, but don’t want to go through the trouble of writing another one-off script. Tags: Google Sheets , Samantha Sunne , scraping Maybe you’ve wished you could quickly grab the data on a webpage and instantly have it in a structured format.

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JULY 12, 2023

For graphing on the go, Present & Correct offers a rubber stamp with a grid and x-y-axes. Tags: axes , stamp I think I need this.

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APRIL 2, 2024

They provide worthwhile use cases, such as language translation and providing a voice to those who are non-verbal, but oh boy, the authenticity of online things is going to get tricky very soon. Tags: ethics , generative , OpenAI , voice

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Towards the bottom of the explainer, there’s an interactive chart that lets you place dots on the plot and the fitted line updates as you go. Tags: MLU-Explain , regression. Most recently, Jared Wilber gets into linear regression.

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MARCH 18, 2022

However, that also means some areas in the country end up with late sunrise, which means going to work or school in the dark. Tags: daylight saving , sunrise , Washington Post. Changing the clocks twice a year can be a hassle, so some people in the United States want to permanently keep Daylight Saving Time.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), in partnership with The Citizen Lab, discovered an in-the-wild 0-day exploit chain for iPhones. If the target is going to a website using ‘http’, then the attacker can intercept the traffic and send fake data back to the target to force them to a different website. and iOS 17.0.1

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

Keep going and you get a fluid-like approach to visualization that gives more attention to beauty, emotion, and qualitative insights that are difficult to measure. Tags: Alberto Cairo , book In the narrowest view of data visualization, you use charts to pull quick, quantitative information from dashboards and reports.

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JULY 14, 2022

Get twenty-two books for eighteen dollars — with a portion of the proceeds going to Girls Who Code. Tags: books , Bundle. There’s a data visualization book bundle on Humble Bundle this month. Seems like a pretty good deal.

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MARCH 7, 2024

If they do it, they really go for it. Tags: Alice Thudt , dialogue , Dominikus Baur , movies , title Also, there’s a total of 277,668 title drops for all 26,965 title-dropping movies which means that there’s an average of 10.3 title drops per movie that title drops.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

You go to the page and there’s a drawing of a fish. Tags: drawing , fish , Lingdong Huang , procedural. Lingdong Huang’s project fishdraw seems straightforward on the surface. But then you keep clicking the refresh arrow and realize the fish are procedurally generated, including the name on the bottom.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The monsoon season in South Asia brings water to the people and land, but signs point to more intense rain as overall temperatures go up. To show the change in rain, Zach Levitt and Jeremy White, for The New York Times, go with a rain drop aesthetic. Tags: monsoon , New York Times , rain.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Bonnie Berkowitz and Artur Galocha go with the strip plot to show the distribution of age for different Olympic events. If it’s longevity you’re looking for, go for the equestrian, sailing, shooting, and archery events. Tags: age , Olympics , Washington Post. There’s still time.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Cells are colored by the main thing going on his life. Tags: Emmett Shear , spreadsheet , timeline He marked where he lived in the left column, years run top to bottom, and months run left to right. You can access the sheet here , in case you want to make one for your own life.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Going off the calendar, today is the first day of spring, but nature just goes off the weather. Tags: spring , Washington Post , weather For The Washington Post, Harry Stevens mapped the early and late arrival of spring leaves across the country : This year’s winter weather pattern cleaved the country in half.

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JUNE 20, 2023

Looking back on our lives in a few decades is going to be weird. Tags: ChatGPT , Philippe Vandenbroeck , Santiago Ortiz , simulation Ortiz describes the technical aspects of the system here. See also the AI chatbot modeled on texts from a fiancee who passed.

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JUNE 29, 2023

It seems to have grown more common for basketball fans to complain that whoever wins the championship didn’t have to go through a legitimate challenge. Tags: basketball , Pudding , Russell Samora If so and so wasn’t injured on the opposing team, so the naysayers claim, then such and such team wouldn’t have won.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Animals are going extinct at a faster rate. Tags: animals , extinction , Reuters. Reuters shows a developing pattern across species : Losing hundreds of species over 500 or so years may not seem significant when there are millions more still living on the planet. We are losing species now faster than they can evolve,” O’Brien said.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Other websites could link to the thing, and people would go to the place with the thing. Tags: news , OpenAI , scraping On the web, it used to be that you would write or make something and there would be a link to the thing. With this recent AI wave, a lot of the thing ends up elsewhere and no one sees the original place.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

If you drive a non-Tesla EV, you’re going to run into some challenges. Tags: Bloomberg , electric vehicle , road trip. We hear about electric vehicles being the future, but for that to happen, people eventually need to be able to drive long distances without getting stranded. For Bloomberg Green, Kyle Stock and Jeremy C.F.

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JUNE 13, 2022

The current location serves as the “hub”, and the ten “spokes” go out to the airports. Tags: airports. Davis shows you the ten closest airports, given a location in the world. The best part is when you move the globe around, the hub-and-spokes look like a creature crawling across the map.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes you need to slow down and go on a drive with no destination. Tags: driving , game , procedural. Slow Roads by anslo is a procedurally generated game that lets you do that. Choose the scene, the road complexity, the weather, the time of day, planet, and vehicle. Then just drive.

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JUNE 13, 2023

It’s around $1 billion worth of oil that is going under the radar while using Western insurance, and they’re using spoofing in order to preserve their Western insurance.” Tags: fake , geolocation , New York Times , oil , ships The transition from fake data to satellite image reality is slick.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

I thought that if I collected enough data, I would eventually figure out what was going wrong. Tags: coronavirus , Giorgia Lupi , long Covid , New York Times In a visual guest essay for NYT Opinion, Lupi describes her experience of fear, pain, and hope using a spreadsheet and a diary of brush strokes. Still, I couldn’t stop tracking.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Can’t go wrong with another one of Muth’s clear and practical guides. Tags: Datawrapper , Lisa Charlotte Muth. Changing the fonts you use for labels and annotation is one of the easiest ways to make charts more readable and less messy, which makes a chart more inviting to examine.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Bloomberg Green breaks it down , including a flow-ish, river-like Sankey Diagram to show where grain exports go. Tags: Bloomberg , drought , Mississippi , river. Drought has caused water levels to drop in the Mississippi River, which is a problem when millions of tons of grain are moved for export via boat.

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