data visualization

Joined September 2010
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I hit my 1 year mark at Datadog last week and today we’re releasing the project I’ve been working on this whole time: datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-d… This has been the most complicated, highest polish feature I’ve worked on anywhere. Plus my first time at a bigger company. Some lessons.
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Cruithne has been nicknamed 'Earth's second moon'. Its elliptical orbit around the Sun is in resonance with the Earth's, so that from our perspective it appears to be following a bean-shaped orbit around us
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Maps of ancestry by U.S. county. observablehq.com/@mbostock/a…
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Today is a great day—we’re hiring another Product Designer to focus on #dataviz (grnh.se/01b2e79d1), so I get to talk about a topic that's near and dear to my heart and to @datadoghq 👇
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It’s here! 🎉 Announcing Observable for Teams: The magic notebook for teams to think, together. Unlimited private notebooks, multiplayer editing, comments and shared secrets. observablehq.com/teams
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Kemper Smith is reminding us of the power of D3. Especially when used with @observablehq. @MadJavaScript – at Wisconsin, USA
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Yes, @LakeMendota froze over (again) on Jan 10th. And, yes, that’s open water (again) on Jan 16th. If (when) the lake freezes for a 3rd time this season, it will be the 1st time that’s ever been recorded.
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The latest iteration of our IMR group's work. This is what storm surge looks like. #Florence will make landfall in the next 36-48 hours and bring with it, 6-9 feet of potential storm surge. @parkertwc will show you what that looks like. @LocalNow @weatherchannel #NCwx #SCwx
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Finally, here's the degree to which the news brought about a broad discussion of the Supreme Court, and the degree to which it dominated all content categorized as "Politics". Yes, internet attention is pretty amazing when you can compare/visualize it this way.
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Inside a detention center last week. Children separated from their parents wail and ask for help. A Border Patrol agent booms above the crying. “Well, we have an orchestra here,” he jokes. “What’s missing is a conductor.” Listen to the full audio here: youtube.com/watch?v=PoncXfYB…
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The edge of Earth’s atmosphere and low Earth orbit to scale with the map. Stack of pennies on right represents the Kármán line where space begins. It is 62 miles (100 km) high. Left stack represents low Earth orbit, approximately 186 miles altitude buff.ly/2tgw5rQ
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I can confidently say Ocean's 8 will make north of $300 million, and Ocean's -5 would crack a billion
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Ok one more (warning extremely spidery content!). If the static composite was not terrifying enough for you here is a live crawling web (created by splitting the data into four separate composites). As @muppling jokingly replied: 700 spiders could have built it in one second :-)
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"Tonight, readers will have the option to turn the jitter off. We expect that some readers will opt to do so, but remember this: Switching it off only hides the uncertainty — it doesn’t make it go away." nytimes.com/2018/03/13/upsho…
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Ever-growing list of training at #SNDNYC: ✔️ D3.js with @veltman or @kemper ✔️ HTML/CSS with @gianordoli ✔️ mapping basics with @schwanksta ✔️ prototyping with @demianborba ✔️ data-viz with @sisiwei ✔️ typography with @ffranchi … and more: nyc.snd.org
I rarely post/share anything other than spiders but this is the exception. This remarkable photo of a calliphorid infested by Cordyceps was taken by Faiz Bustamente and is shared here with permission. An amazing once in a lifetime shot. #LoveNature #FungusIsBoss #ThereBePirates
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Landfall about 10 miles away. #Harvey
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