📊Ordering of variables in such displays is a design choice, and not surprising that you get different configs in radar plots. It is a good example of what I call Effect Ordering for Data Displays www.datavis.ca/papers/effec...

Officer I have a different way of calculating blood alcohol percentage

some are saying I didn't *need* to grab the sample ballot for a vote this simple

this is so clean 🤤 #nflsky

I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works! This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one). Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

I yearn for rest this good (but am glad she gets it 16 hours a day!)

I've been enjoying building explainers around everyday tech that feels like magic: - perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck... - perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps... Hoping to release this new one about Shazam in the next week!

5 star security

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

Did you know that your phone’s position comes from measuring time, because GPS is basically triangulation by signal delay? Now you do. Nice explainer @shrikhalpada.dev perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

wow, thanks for shouting out my piece!

I built an interactive guide on how GPS works! perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps...

the comment section on the original KEXP Angine de Poitrine video is my current favorite place on the internet

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

love the term "proof of thoughtfulness"

just a lil existentialist chart!

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

bliss

Past tech disruptions don't guarantee the same outcomes in the future. Things will be the way we collectively shape them to be. (excerpt from my recent piece about AI music!)

it might be rose-colored glasses, but I look back on everything I've ever spent hours upon hours designing, coding, and debugging in the "before times" with a lot of reverence

Inspired by @shrikhalpada.dev, it's my #30DayChartChallenge day 2, "pictogram." Circles are pictures, right? Arguably just jittered sampled points... I like how it shows the "density" of people/income. And a fun coincidence that nice round numbers break the total income earned into roughly quarters.

♥️

insanely locked in

Been feeling a lot of dread about this era of hyper-personalization But also some hope recently. At least anecdotally with me and my social circle, I've felt a stronger sense of yearning for humans to do human things together. I hope that's the side that wins!

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In a short span of time, we transformed the way we thought about health,” Cal Newport writes. “I’ve come to believe that a similarly rapid revolution is possible in how we respond to our diminishing ability to think.”

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

Today marks 50 years since of DC metro! Feels like a fun time to reshare this project: an interactive metro map I worked on using Three.js last year perthirtysix.com/tool/dc-roads

The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban.

one subtle thing that GenAI CEOs do a lot: use strategic ambiguity about their product based on who they're talking to how can something be both "just a tool for creative people" but also have its entire fair-use legal argument predicated on that it "learns like a human"?

The Jetsons lied to us

"What you made with Sora mattered" is one of the least true things that has ever been written

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

the one week between winter and debilitating pollen allergies 🥰

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wow, really honored to have had my interactive essay about AI-generated music shared in @gijn.org's roundup of top 10 data journalism pieces for March! gijn.org/stories/data...

first day of spring in dc

I updated my interactive data piece about American wealth inequality to pull in the latest available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics! It now goes up to 2025:Q3. perthirtysix.com/tool/america...

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

"i have conquered this green laundry basket"

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

unbelievably clean NFL draft #dataviz by @robmoore.tech you can play with it here! perthirtysix.com/nfl/draft/re...

this is true in my experience as well. last year i wrote a song with the internal prompt of writing a 32 bar jazz standard. what i wrote more closely resembles modern pop music, imo because of my personal tastes and the "mistakes" i made while writing the song

this has to be the biggest single-day weather shift I've ever seen (sunny 80s and humid yesterday to 30s and snowing today)

Someone finished a Cave Story rap concept album they started in 2009. (this is someone else’s screenshot) youtu.be/faBrzVHm7ow?...

Really written with a lot of heart, full of interactive #dataviz AND if that wasn't enough, music by Shri himself (what a flex)!! Stunning piece of work.

I wrote a lot of words and built a lot of interactives around AI-generated music!

I'm so glad we got together as a society and saved daylight

Good haul at the grocery store!