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End of Year Lists
What the data behind Spotify Wrapped can and cannot tell us about ourselves
Ben Dexter Cooley
I make things with data.
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Data to know for COP26
What to tell the kids, the climate stakes of COP26, and a text portrait with CSS
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Generative music systems
How generative music works, infinite ambient, and some new music
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People vs. Fossil Fuels (pt. 2)
What the numbers tell us about our climate antagonists
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People vs. Fossil Fuels (pt. 1)
The fight against fossil fuels comes to D.C.
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Public libraries
Free public spaces, punctuation visualization, and open access digital libraries.
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8 years
Another Climate Week, the false hope of carbon capture, and a 2-degree world.
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Redefining Data Curious
A long silence is broken: some thoughts on burnout, data visualization, and a new direction for the newsletter
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The rise of anti-Asian American hate crimes
Hate crime reporting, anthropographics, and the UK lockdown experiment
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To All the Books I Read in 2020
A long overdue reflection on my reading history in 2020, 10 years of d3.js, and visualizing vaccine roadblocks
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Making maps for humans
An exploration of how geospatial angles and treatments affect how we see the world
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Data visualization as grief
A new Data Curious format, the road ahead, and reflecting on visualizing grief