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Builder (ex-FB) | Photographer | Explorer

San Francisco, Ca
Joined September 2011
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Spent a couple minutes thinking about rendering text using graphs this morning and built a quick tool to render any text in any font using it.
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Did some quick #datavis work this week on top of @ForecastByNPE's open datasets. Feels good to play with @observablehq for the first time and d3 again. forecastapp.substack.com/p/f…
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The feelings this morning.
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Miles McCrocklin retweeted
With the margin in Georgia now at about 4,000 votes, I'm thinking about the ~60,000 people represented in this analysis I did, of early voting wait times in Gwinnett County, and about the poll workers who counted (and will now recount) all of their votes 🙏
Newly published data visualization on early voting wait times in Gwinnett County, Georgia bit.ly/3oNLmwm
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While we are still stewing in all of this uncertainty I put a post out on how I've been coping with it over the several months. observablehq.com/@milr0c/nav…
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Lots of predictions on @ForecastByNPE this election season.
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When building @ForecastByNPE we wanted to ensure the platform is transparent from the get go. Last week we launched forecastapp.net/downloads to let others analyze and tell stories from the data our community creates. Check out observablehq.com/collection/… to get started
I really don't want this to happen but I'm still expecting it to :'( forecastapp.net/?prediction_…
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Check out the new Forecast website and make your own predictions about the election! forecastapp.net/q/TWFya2V0Oi…
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This is a map... It's been a while since I've done vis work but this was a fun and unexpected #d3brokeandmadeart... It's more of a "I incorrectly edited a topojson file and made art"
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Very pleased to share our #CHI2020 paper, GUIComp: A GUI Design Assistant with Real-Time, Multi-Faceted Feedback. Please check out video demonstration, paper, and more: bckwon.com/publication/guico… #mobilegui #guidesign (1/n)
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Miles McCrocklin retweeted
My very first 3d #dataviz is live on @christmasxp 🥳 Explore the 51 women awarded Nobel Prizes since 1901 🏆 "walk" amongst them to read about their accomplishments, then "fly" up to get a holistic view across the decades 🚀 🔗 christmasexperiments.com/201… ⌨️ github.com/sxywu/legends
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These are some of the best visualizations of uncertainty that the public accepts the uncertainty and interprets as best as we can. wsj.com/articles/how-to-tell… > “We’re trying to steer people toward the hazards,” Mr. Brennan said. “The hazards are what kill people.”
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Miles McCrocklin retweeted
Today I've been working in one of my last challenges in my current job where I used crossfilter JavaScript and this great tutorial bl.ocks.org/milroc/raw/63163… by @Milr0c help me to understand crossfilter js . Thanks Miles! – at Malaga, Spain
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Miles McCrocklin retweeted
Biggest #storytelling I’ve worked on all year, I’m personally proudest of the 9 videos, 2 static + 3 animated #dataviz we got working on 📱. It shows how technically far I’ve come in the past year✨ Incredible 🖋/📽 by @guardian, 📊 by @NadiehBremer & I: theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i… – at Thousand Oaks, CA
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WINNER - Science & Technology SILVER (tied): Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00am? By @NadiehBremer Zan Armstrong @sciam bit.ly/2ka8Y1h
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Miles McCrocklin retweeted
The next annotation installment react-annotation react-annotation.susielu.com… composable annotations & 2 new types #react 👩‍💻💖🥓
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