What to do with 25 years of monthly transit system data? How about try to identify college towns based on ridership trends.

In my hobby of digging into data shared by research articles, I sometimes encounter data file types I can’t read directly, so I built this webapp to help.

The start (and end?) of my adventure in online data visualization research, with some preliminary results.

How I removed Claude from the contributors list of my GitHub repo.

Using data from the Human Mortality Database, I find some interesting patterns regarding good and bad years to be born.

I tracked two-digit authentication codes for two years after suspecting a subtle bias toward higher values. Using simple visualizations, standard statistical tests, and simulation as a reality check, this post explores how easy it is to see structure in randomness and how hard it is to prove it.

Experiments with a new “quintile area” strip plot, prompted by skewed box plots in a biology paper, ended up clarifying why box plots remain so robust.

Charting Greenland Ice sheet melt data from two sources of raw data.

An exploration of radar charts from a recent Nature article, tracing the path from radars to fitted sigmoidal curves to alternate derived summary views.

Here’s another case in the wild of beeswarm jitter using clamped bounds that hide the distribution of the data. This one has a twist in that a large proportion of the data values are zero.