Happy New Year! Starting the year off by recapping a few projects wrapped up last year. The first is something I'm calling "Asteroid Tones", a live data sonification of asteroids passing Earth today. It pulls data from NASA's Near Earth Object API to create
important frontmatter note: after this edition of Data Curious I will be culling my subscriber list. This means that if you have never opened an email from me, you might be removed from the newsletter. I have never done before, but since moving to Ghost I have started to pay
Summer has flown by. Conference season (for me) has now come to an end, and I'm thinking about new projects for the coming academic year. The newsletter took a seasonal hiatus, but feel ready to dive back into a semi-routine of publishing. I had the chance to attend
Hello, One edition into my new platform host (Ghost) and everything is smooth sailing so far. Thanks to those who signed up recently on the new landing page. The old Substack is officially deleted, so you will no longer find my posts there (the archive has been migrated here). This
Hello, This is my first edition of Data Curious on Ghost. In last week's post, I explained some of my thinking behind making the switch, so I won't re-hash it here. Instead I'm thinking ahead—I have written some version of this newsletter for
Customizing sonifications, data murmurations, fast WebGPU plots
Distorted projections, dishonest charts, digging out deleted data
Autographic visualization, Every Bird, geospatial APIs
Visualizing as verification, moving to disaster-prone areas, Upset plots
The Carrington Event, New York noise levels, a Jupyter Scatter widget
Turning colors into music, an atlas of intangibles, an audio analysis
A new job, revisiting data-ink ratio, a macro-microscope