We just launched a desktop version of Rowboat! * Open much larger files (offline!) * Own Desktop as a one-time purchase. * Use a double-clickable app that’s even faster than the web version. Browser or desktop, your data never leaves your machine. Read more: www.fathom.info/notebook/251...

Following the completion of his summer 2024 internship, we now welcome Andy back as a full time member of the team.

Voitko sanoa uudelleen? Outside of the studio, Mark’s been studying Finnish and Paul’s learning type design. We’re delighted by these unique Finnish cheatsheets they designed using Paul’s work-in-progress font Lilliput. #typedesign #finnish #typography #languagelearning #liliput

Rowboat makes it easy to explore data by filtering down to different subsets. In this UFO sightings dataset (rowboat.net/f/uzu782mq), ppen the Find tool and filter the “datetime_time” column with “7/4” to see how many sightings happened on July 4th.

We recently made a round of visual updates to Rowboat to make it even easier to spot geographic regions where data is more highly concentrated. To get more out of your own geographic data, head to www.rowboat.net

We updated Rowboat’s Chrome extension to open HTML tables and links to .csv, .tsv, and .xls spreadsheets in your browser with a simple right click. Just locate the dataset you want to examine, right click, and select “Open Table in Rowboat” to start exploring.

In our latest blog post, Chase gives us a lesson in wet-bulb temperature calculations, conversing with coworkers while running, and the perks of opting out of the MBTA for your morning commute. You can read more here: www.fathom.info/notebook/250...

A few weeks ago, we survived another "Fathom Song Guessing Game" — my favorite day of the year when we all get to know each other a bit better via our musical selections. This year's theme was UNLEASH THE BEAST. We have since managed to re-leash our beasts, and the office is back in order.

📸 Rowboat's header snapshot feature makes it easy to discover insights and instantly share your findings. When you spot something interesting, you’re just a click away from getting it in front of your team or shared online! Check out the datasets on rowboat.xyz/!

When your dataset contains columns with lists or arrays instead of single values, the Set Analysis header in Rowboat breaks these entries apart so you can analyze each term individually. Explore this BoardGameGeek dataset: rowboat.xyz/f/mczim00b

We recently dove into papal history, tracking the length of every papacy from 30 AD to 2013. If your data contains paired values — start and end, or minimum and maximum, just link them and explore the ranges! Explore the pope dataset with Rowboat 🚣 : rowboat.xyz/f/wvjko69a

We are so excited to welcome Karlie as the latest addition to our team! Karlie is an interdisciplinary designer and developer with an affinity for textile-oriented projects. Check out some of Karlie's incredible work here!

I really like Rowboat for introducing students to CSVs, and I’m excited about this new set analysis feature. Lists of items in one column is a really common problem for students to deal with.

Last September, we launched Rowboat — a tool for getting a quick, meaningful first look at your data. Today, we’re excited to share some new features to help you explore your data visually and answer even more questions. Dive in! 🌊 Explore the OKCupid dataset: rowboat.xyz/f/oxr6zumn

We have a ton of updates we're excited to share about Rowboat, our tool for making sense of large datasets. Read about it on our blog: fathom.info/notebook/250... We'll also be continuing to share some of these features in more detail here, so keep an eye out for those!

Issued in Japan in the early 1950s, two books of Tokyo Post Office infographics. Featuring lots of cute illustrations! dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2473430/... dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/2473426/...

Sierra Leone is battling an mpox variant, G.1, that is rapidly spreading—25% hospitalized, thousands likely infected, cases doubling every two weeks, and now detected in the US & Europe. The country is responding. The world must join them. time.com/7291478/sier...

We're immensely proud of the work we're able to do with @pardissabeti.bsky.social and the Sentinel team at @sabetilab.bsky.social in building systems to get ahead of viral outbreaks, like the mpox outbreak unfolding in Sierra Leone now. Read more in this latest article: time.com/7291478/sier...

Thanks for checking it out, Marius!

All three top runners in the women's division of the Boston Marathon crushed the previous time record this year! We took a look at the trends in finish times over the race's history, and were struck by the rapid leaps in record breaking over the first two decades women were allowed to compete.

Mark and Paul recently spent some time tinkering with new ways to show an outbreak moving over space, time, and population.

We’re excited to share the completed preprint of Delphy — our new tool for scalable, near-real-time #Bayesianphylogenetics for outbreaks! 🚀 Check it out here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Explore Delphy: delphy.fathom.info Led by #PatrickVarilly @sabetilab.bsky.social @fathom.info 🧵1/17

Happy Monday! We wanted to share some of the books we've been reading and enjoying lately.

Our recent discovery of a 2018 census of Central Park squirrels inspired Katherine to write up a lovely piece walking through how we can quickly unpack the antics of over 3,000 squirrel with Rowboat — a tool we built for diving into new datasets. fathom.info/notebook/250...

Lately, we've been thinking a lot about this piece for inspiration: Marilou Schultz's "Replica of a Chip" is a woven rug that uses Navajo weaving techniques to recreate the patterns found on computer chips, specifically the Intel Pentium processor.

Fathom's holiday card this year honors our love of New England, with a data-focused twist! Big thanks to Paul for leading the charge in getting our mailing out the door, and for putting together a delightful mini-site to pair with this year's card: fathom.info/holiday/24/

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We couldn't ask for a more perfectly snowy day in Boston as we head off into our winter break! To hear more about what we've been up to this year, check out our 2024 recap up on our blog: fathom.info/notebook/241... Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and a happy new year ❄

To close out the year, we introduced stacked bar charts to our roster of header charts! We've been having a blast exploring a dataset of ok cupid profiles from the early 2010's with this new feature. See some of our favorite findings below. 🥗 🐾 💉

Mark recently put together a thoughtful piece on how we designed Delphy (a new tool for rapidly generating and exploring phylogenetic trees) to be able to lower technical barriers to phylogenetic research. You can find his full blog post here: fathom.info/notebook/241... delphy.fathom.info

We've been lucky to host a few special guests in the Fathom office over the last few weeks!

We've looked at datasets for mushroom classification, UFO sightings around the world, book reviews, and 1920s women's voter registration (to name a few). Now, we'd love to hear what you're exploring in Rowboat!

Rowboat lets you quickly try out new ways of looking at your data. Rotate through different chart types (including donuts, treemaps, bars, histograms, choropleth maps, timelines, and time series charts) right in the header as you explore your files.

Fathom Offline: Paul recently took part in a book arts workshop where he learned a variety of binding techniques. Here are the three unique books he crafted: (book descriptions below)

Rowboat is now available as a Chrome browser extension! 🚣 Download the Open in Rowboat extension on chromewebstore.google.com to start viewing your Google Sheets files in Rowboat.

Every few Fridays, we like to have a member of our team teach us about a topic they're passionate about outside of the office. Chase (our newest hire!) recently gave us a thrilling presentation on research he conducted in Kenya last summer.

Interacting with your data lets you quickly uncover the trends you care about most while you explore. 🎧 Looking at the most streamed Spotify songs of 2023 in Rowboat:

Latest on the blog— our reflections on navigating a fractured social media landscape and how we share what we care about. fathom.info/notebook/241... (Don’t worry, we’re still excited to be connecting and sharing on Instagram, Bluesky, and Mastodon!)

Rowboat is cool! If you've got a CSV and you wanna know what it is, what the data looks like, all the things we mean when we say "shape"... it'll pretty much immediately give you that. And without even having to install anything or upload your data anywhere.

Which three historical figures rank highest on the Pantheon Project's popularity index? Where are they geographically clustered? What is the mean number of languages their wikipedia pages have been translated into?

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