Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
8 min read Why Do All Websites Look the Same? The internet suffers from a lack of imagination, so I asked my students to redesign it Today’s internet is bland. Everything looks...
05/07/2024
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What Makes a Data Visualization Confusing?
Why are some visualizations so easy to understand at first sight while others seem to be some sort of graphical puzzle? Why do some visualizations need to be relearned every...
04/15/2024
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How Pew Research Center uses git and GitHub for version control
The research we do on Pew Research Center’s Data Labs team typically involves multiple members of our team working collaboratively on code that covers all aspects of a research...
03/25/2024
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Data Horror Stories - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Working for data teams unavoidably creates horror stories that crystalize themselves in the brains of those who have experienced them. Terrible bosses who don’t understand...
03/24/2024
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What's the plot of your data story?
It rains cats and dogs once a day. Iguanas sunbathe next to the road. You try to speak Spanish but sound French. The scattered sentences above are small beats of my holiday...
03/04/2024
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Alternative Map Projections in Tableau
If you've already read the blog post and you are just looking for the files, you can download them from my Google Drive here. Otherwise, please check out the full blog post...
02/24/2024
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Persistent Systems Navigates New ‘Digital Engineering’ Zones
Technology evolves, constantly. But like all fluid entities, the inherent dynamism that we know exists in software development, always naturally coalesces and crystallizes into...
02/21/2024
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