What it’s like when a data center moves in
For the Verge, Lauren Feiner visited Loudoun County, Virginia, which used to be the location of AOL headquarters. After the dot-com bust, the county opened the empty AOL buildings and infrastructur…
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UN votes to support map projection that accurately shows the size of Africa
Last year, the African Union pushed for wider adoption of the Equal Area map projection so that the size of Africa is more accurately shown around the world. A few days ago, the United Nations vote…
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Retroid Pocket Duo makes dual-screen gaming feel fresh again with its modern clamshell design - Yanko Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l4WZYU9Cg8 There is something immediately satisfying about a handheld that refuses to make two screens behave like one. Retroid’s new Pocket Duo takes that idea and builds it into a modern clamshell, giving Nintendo DS and 3DS-style gaming a form factor that feels considerably more natural than squeezing both displays onto a single screen. The
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Application of charts and data
This week is about adapting our visualization workflow as the tools change dramatically.
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Uncounted heat-related deaths
The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention count causes of death, and heat is included in the tabulations. However, it is likely that the reports for heat are undercounts. NPR, in collabora…
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Cooling down less in the evening
The summer of 2026 will most likely be the hottest summer on record since 1936. Part of that is hot days, but more significantly it’s cooling down less at night, which raises the overall aver…
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Trustworthy data visualization
Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture on the limits of trust in data visualization. We were already approaching a place where people could say what t…
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Google buys Spirit Airlines data in bankruptcy sale
Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data. AJ Dellinger reports for Gizmodo: Google’s winning bid in the auction was priced at $10 million, outbidding Mercor, an …
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Massive Exoplanets Could Form Around Supermassive Black Holes
Black holes aren't just engines of inexorable destruction. They're complex regions of space and time, and under the right conditions, giant planets can form in their AGN disks.
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Origins of American city names
In the early 1900s, Henry Gannett cataloged the origins of city names in the United States. For the Wall Street Journal, Carl Churchill made a searchable map to see where your city’s name cam…
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Botched map of Africa in U.S. government presentation
In a presentation by the State Department, a generated map provides all the highlighted countries mislabeled. Jessica Donati reports for Reuters: The State Department said it took “full resp…
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Visualization tools, datasets, and resources — July 2026 roundup
Here is what happened in July.
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Seinfeld episodes and characters, a visual exploration
Several years ago, Andy Kirk watched every episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, all the while collecting data in five-second increments. He visualized the data in book-form, but now there’s a fun …
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Maintaining a vibe-coded internet
The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning process, and project maintenance grows more muddled as it gets easier to produce code without knowing what any…
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Map of AI archetypes
AI Compass is a quiz of thirty questions that asks for your opinion on various topics. At the end, you are given an archetype that sits somewhere in an x-y-space with overhyped to transformative on…
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