Series in progress and the occasional standalone piece.
Series
Finding the story in the data, and drawing it so others can see it too.
Real astronomy on public data — and the methods that make you better at every other kind of data work.
Notes from building a public writing practice — and the small tools, decisions, and friction that come with it.
Posts
Drawing the Data, Chapter 1. Two famous charts at opposite ends of the complexity spectrum — Shirky's cube of cognitive surplus and Minard's 1812 campaign map — and why complexity was never the axis that mattered. With an interactive cube and a hand-redrawn, fully interactive Minard.
An explainer I wrote in grad school for The Conversation about silicon photonics and the future of optical computing. Read by ~100,000 people; top-read University of Michigan author for two months.