Dec 6, 2021
Wombo Dream is a fun app that lets you enter some words to output a related AI-powered artwork in various styles. You can get the app, or you can play with it in your browser. I entered my dissertation title. Tags: AI, Wombo
Dec 3, 2021
Research by M. Pusceddu et al. shows that honeybees use social distancing when a parasite is introduced to the hive. In a parasite-free hive, activities are spread throughout the hive, whereas clusters form when parasites are detected. The Economist illustrated the...
Dec 3, 2021
It seems clear that Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies) in its current state is bad for the environment, but it’s hard to say how bad it really is. Kyle McDonald estimated emissions and energy usage to try to understand better: “Ethereum is comparable to...
Dec 2, 2021
I’m opening the print shop for a few days. Get your order in, and I’ll try my best to get it to you before Christmas.
Dec 2, 2021
Welcome to issue #167 The Process, the newsletter for FlowingData members that looks closer at how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and we’re back from Thanksgiving. I hope you were able to take some time off. Every month I collect tools and resources...
Dec 1, 2021
Using data from Project FeederWatch, which is a community tracking project to count birds around feeders, Miller et al. estimated the pecking order among 200 species. This was in 2017. For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Alyssa Fowers worked with the...
Nov 30, 2021
That’s a lot of email. Tags: email, Thanksgiving
Nov 29, 2021
When you compare the price of things today against prices one year ago, almost everything increased in cost at a rapid rate. While out of the ordinary, it’s definitely not the first time this happened. The New York Times zoomed out to show year-over-year price...
Nov 26, 2021
For NYT’s The Upshot, Alicia Parlapiano and Quoctrung Bui outlined all of the provisions of Biden’s Build Back Better bill and where the $2 trillion over 10 years will come from. A treemap provides an overview that sticks to the top of the page as you...
Nov 24, 2021
Choosing a place to live is always full of trade-offs, but it’d be nice if there was a way to minimize those trade-offs. For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek and Yaryna Serkez, made a calculator that lets you weight your priorities to find the city that fits best with...
