Depth contours are essential chart features, portraying seabed morphology and delineating the depth areas used by navigation systems to assess route safety and trigger alarms. Their portrayal must ...
A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier. “The ...
A cartographer posits that our maps should be messier. “The idea that we must have a crisp line dividing one country from another is often inaccurate when it co
Bézier Spline Simplification Using Locally Integrated Error Metrics
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Aqua Coast — your coaster log
Log every roller coaster you've ridden — stored in your own AT Protocol PDS.
DR Group
For high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction (DR) methods have been invaluable tools for human understanding, as they can map datasets into two or three dimensions for visualization, providing an intuitive way to understand the data. In recent years, tons of DR methods for data visualization have been proposed, and some are much better than others. In this blog post, we explore several DR methods, discuss how to determine which methods are effective, and explain why some are better than others.
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ICE Flight Monitor
Visualize common routes, weekly patterns of shuffle and deportation flights, third country transfer flights, and track historical flight trends dating back to 2020.
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …
Four Corners
Sixteen words sit in the bank. Your job is to sort them into four categories around the board — one per edge.
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
The Sea Life Making a Home in Offshore Wind Farms | Atmos
Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
