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  • May 20 2024

    Spotify Wrapped 2023 wins "Creative Use of Data" merit award from The One Club for Creativity

  • Feb 08 2024

    A death sentence: Native Americans have least access to liver transplant system

  • Dec 01 2023

    2023 Wrapped: Sound Town

  • Nov 02 2023

    Small Projects over on Notion, Batch #1

  • Mar 21 2023

    New liver transplant rules yield winners, losers as wasted organs reach record high

  • Sep 27 2022

    Howdy! It's Been Awhile

  • Oct 14 2021

    Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products

  • Aug 25 2021

    The Secret Bias Hidden in Mortgage-Approval Algorithms

  • Jan 23 2021

    How Well Do You Remember Trump's Term In Office?

  • Jan 13 2021

    Catch Me on Observable

  • Nov 13 2020

    How Has Redistricting Changed Since 2011

  • Nov 03 2020

    Where Is Election Night 2020 Heading?

  • Oct 25 2020

    Where Democratic donations can make the biggest impact

  • Oct 08 2020

    Improving Twitter's Image Previews

  • Oct 08 2020

    Intro to the Seam Carving Algorithm

  • Sep 12 2020

    Fixing Bad COVID-19 Maps, Mapping Musical Genres, and Other Twitter Projects

  • Jul 06 2020

    Data Artwork and Creative Coding

  • Jun 16 2020

    K-Means Music: Generating Clustered Playlists on Spotify

  • Mar 24 2020

    Plotting the 3,979 Delegates of the 2020 Democratic Primary

  • Feb 10 2020

    The Best Films That Don't Win Best Picture

  • Jan 08 2020

    Is IBM Watson Good At Fantasy Football?

  • Jan 02 2020

    The Decade of Disney

  • Dec 31 2019

    How A Subpar Football Fan Succeeds in Fantasy Football

  • Nov 22 2019

    A Tale of Two Half Marathons

  • Oct 27 2019

    How A Bill Does Not Become A Law

  • Jun 27 2019

    Visualizing Trump's Narrow Path to Victory

  • Jun 23 2019

    Finding the Most Average Font

  • Jun 23 2019

    Random Fun with Processing

  • Aug 24 2018

    Popular Movies vs. Great Films at the Oscars

  • Apr 23 2018

    A First Attempt At Generative Art

  • Mar 03 2018

    How Obama and Trump Responded to School Shootings

  • Feb 28 2018

    A Retrospective on the 2018 Fantasy Olympics

  • Feb 06 2018

    Gamifying the 2018 Olympic Games

  • Jan 28 2018

    Visualizing Cities with Sports Dynasties

  • Jan 07 2018

    Favorites from 2017

  • Oct 27 2017

    What Does the Public Think About Confederate Monuments?

  • Oct 07 2017

    Partisanship and the NFL

  • Sep 07 2017

    Should I Become an NFL Scout?

  • Jul 30 2017

    Street Art in London

  • Jun 23 2017

    Random Brain Fun with Illustrator

  • Jun 01 2017

    Explaining Adaptive Huffman Coding with Scrollytelling

  • May 10 2017

    Decipering the Signal and the Noise

  • Apr 28 2017

    The Chaos Game

  • Mar 15 2017

    ASL-LEX: A Visualization of American Sign Language

  • Jan 24 2017

    How I Keep Track of All My Shows

  • Jan 08 2017

    Polar Line Charts in D3

  • Jan 02 2017

    Understanding the Kirkpatrick-Seidel Algorithm

  • Dec 21 2016

    Visualizing Our Drunken World

  • Nov 18 2016

    Mapping My Life at Tufts

  • Nov 10 2016

    Meet St. Paul and the Broken Bones

  • Oct 11 2016

    Introducing 2016-17 NHL Projections

  • Sep 28 2016

    Random D3 Fun

  • Aug 26 2016

    Am I Becoming More or Less Hipster?

  • Aug 22 2016

    United States vs. the World in Rio 2016

  • Aug 15 2016

    Miller-Rabin Primality Test

  • May 15 2016

    PCA and K-Means on NHL Stats

  • May 08 2016

    Visualizing My (Unhealthy) Netflix History

  • May 03 2016

    Support Vector Machines and Poetry

  • Apr 26 2016

    Lots of Light Painting

  • Mar 09 2016

    Clustering Using K-Means

  • Dec 12 2015

    Minimizing Risk For An Optimal Portfolio

  • Nov 10 2015

    Building a "Rock Band" Visualizer for Drum Tab

  • Oct 30 2015

    Tufts Polyhack 2015: JumboAdvisor

  • Sep 01 2015

    Visualizing My Spotify History

  • Aug 16 2015

    Best Of "Data is Beautiful" #1

  • Jul 06 2015

    Random Project: Censor Machine

  • Jul 01 2015

    Old Python Games / Projects

  • Jun 26 2015

    Retro Post: Game Theory, The Game

  • Jun 17 2015

    Retro Post: iOS Upgrades (Circa 2013)

  • May 21 2015

    Why Everyone Should Use (Or At Least Try) Spotify

  • Mar 31 2015

    RodRego: The Simple Register Machine Simulator

  • Nov 30 2014

    Grub: The Command-line GrubHub

  • Nov 12 2014

    Random Project: Base64 Decoder

  • Nov 01 2014

    Up-to-Date Infographics

  • Oct 31 2014

    Rap, Data, and Design