Sounds before summer
Hey there, It's been a while, but life has been busy. I wanted to send a new issue before summer fully takes off with a few updates on what I've been up to, plus the usual links and online resources that I've been saving
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Viz Vibes
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
Feelings data (+ important note)
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
On data art
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
Finding our senses
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
A new wave (and first post on Ghost)
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
A tipping point
Customizing sonifications, data murmurations, fast WebGPU plots
Critical Data Thinking
Distorted projections, dishonest charts, digging out deleted data
Blurring the lines
Autographic visualization, Every Bird, geospatial APIs
Decision fatigue
Visualizing as verification, moving to disaster-prone areas, Upset plots
Sonifying solar storms
The Carrington Event, New York noise levels, a Jupyter Scatter widget
A Soundscape of Color
Turning colors into music, an atlas of intangibles, an audio analysis
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Complex Systems
A new job, revisiting data-ink ratio, a macro-microscope
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Graphic notations
Visual musical scores, map for grasslands, teachable machines
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New data forms
Some housekeeping, blind birders, accessible oceans, and Gephi Lite
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Hiding the Magic
The hidden cost of ChatGPT, an Information Design Journal, and the MusicCaps dataset
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Reading / Remembering
The Yard-Sale model, Atom Tones, and EYEO on Vimeo
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Space sounds
Visualization as witnessing, sounds from space, bite-sized sonification
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On teaching code for data visualization
End of term reflections, end of year lists, and NormConf
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Digging through the Earth
Responsive vs redesign, a tunnel to the other side, and mapping a million nodes
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Getting there by train
Mixed media sonification, train maps, and command line hacks
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We are Awful, We are Better, We Can be Better
A Factful data perspective, cooling trees in cities, and PAC-MOM
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Thinking critically about datasets
A critical dataset reading list, visualization of design semantics, and getting started making sound in the browser
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Re-learning to learn
Reducing colors in charts, personalized inflation rates, and a visual programming language