I like to read. I can’t say that the hobby was forced on me, per se, but… look at how my mom dressed me: I also like dataviz. Sadly viz onesies don’t seem to have been available 30 years ago. So, of course, it now comes time to make a data visualization about my reading…
It’s been a garbage month in a garbage year. I had to put down my constant companion, my sweetest little buddy, my cat Fergus, and although it’s been a week I’m still tripping over my emotions when I least expect it. So instead of posting new work, I want to clean out my folder of…
You may have seen This Person Does Not Exist. If you haven’t, I recommend taking a look and reporting back here before reading further. Technology has advanced to a point where we can generate photorealistic faces, discernable as fake only by eldritch criteria: iridescent glows, perfectly symmetrical eyes, the wrong number of teeth. Not only…
I’ve had this project finished for more than a month but I just can’t bring myself to do a writeup about it… Is this like a recipe blog where you’d rather I just get to the pretty data viz without prattling on about where the idea came from and what it took to make it…
Multnomah County, Oregon–home of Portland, and also me!–has just started to release precinct-level election data. Of course, I’m very interested in getting a super granular view on how the Portland metro area voted for President, but many of the surrounding counties haven’t released their precinct-level results yet. In the interim, I wanted to get a…
Hi Friends, It’s been a while. It should go without saying that things have been pretty garbage lately–out in the world and closer to home. I haven’t had much excitement for dataviz recently. But for you, loyal readers, I have returned with a wonderful treat: a dozen maps about poop and farts! (And other medical…
Introduction How do you define an emoji? It can be hard to describe them with words. Some are pretty simple: 🙂 and ☹️. Others have meanings not obvious on the surface, but fairly easy to understand once you’re in the know: 🍑 or 🍆. But others still seem to express some ineffable figment of the…
I’m published!! In the Pudding! Check it out here! Getting to this point was downright terrifying. I’d been posting on my lil’ blog and on Reddit for a while, but it was a huge step to go out into the world and find someone that would pay me for a project. For a hyper-anxious person…
More than a year ago, I mentioned I was planning a map of roundabouts in the British Isles. Like always, though, I shelved it in favor of newer, flashier ideas and it just never got done. I dragged the project out of the cobwebs last month, though, thinking it could be an easy thing to…
Of the blogs I read, Daniel Huffman’s Something About Maps is one of my favorites. He posts his work as well as very helpful step-by-step tutorials on cartographic and cartographic-adjacent topics. What appeals to me about Daniel’s work is how it’s a little wacky and unexpected–not necessarily what you’d find in the dictionary next to…