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How a Massive Bomb Came Together in Beirut’s Port
~13 min read · Paywall possible · 148 saves · Sep 9th · Fifteen tons of fireworks. Jugs of kerosene and acid. Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate. A system of corruption and bribes let the perfect…
This Is Why We Couldn’t Control the Pandemic
~14 min read · 82 saves · Sep 14th · To stop the pandemic, some countries slammed their doors. It worked — until they let outsiders back in.
Is the Mail Getting Slower? We’re Tracking It
6 min read · Paywall possible · 80 saves · Sep 14th · What 28 million letters can tell us about how the post office is doing.
Best of the visualisation web... June 2020
4 min read · 43 saves · Sep 10th · At the end of each month I pull together a collection of links to some of the most relevant, interesting or thought-provoking web content…
The Upshot on Today’s Polls
Paywall possible · 41 saves · Sep 15th · Skip to contentSkip to site indexA closer look at polls of Florida and Wisconsin.
Stickers, Highlighters and Other Ways States Hope to Save Mail Votes
~13 min read · Paywall possible · 40 saves · Sep 23rd · These six states are among those making changes, but there are still pitfalls for voters.
These scatter plots of heat and rain helped me understand our changing climate
2 min read · 32 saves · Sep 24th · Using a thermo-pluvio diagram to show which months are wetter and which ones are dryer
Deep Learning UX
2 min read · 30 saves · Sep 22nd · Designing and programming user interfaces takes significant resources. What if we could support this process with the help of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning?…