A small study on the usefulness of breaking a smooth fitted curve plus an interesting side discovery.

Lightweight exploration of Bob Ross paint colors for a data visualization challenge, including my own happy accident.

I finally have an application for all the Radio Paradise playlist data I’ve been collecting for year: detecting their 2022 format refresh.

Going from monthly to daily trends data to question the claim of a “move to Canada” spike after the 2020 Biden election.

How many ways can you draw a color gradient chart legend? I found plenty in the National Climate Assessment reports.

A brief review of dot plot jitter methods and a study of one example from a Nature article.

I collected new data to take a closer look at the scented-candle/Covid19 relationship and found a new connection not related to smell.

Four ways to evaluate starting Quordle word triplets using partition counting and simulation.

Fitted lines are useful as first order approximations, but it’s often useful to look a little deeper. In the process of exploring a paper’s time trends, I found an unexpected data processing issue.

Trying to adapt the warming stripes graphic with latitude bands, with a detour to import NetCDF data on an equally-spaced global grid.