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When you spend more than you make, you get debt. For the Washington Tags: debt , government , revenue , spending , Washington Post

This week is about changing perspectives so we can find and visualize new insights. Tags: perspective

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI Tags: 404 Media , Amazon , tracking , training

A total eclipse path is passing through Europe this week. The New York Tags: eclipse , Europe , New York Times

To augment its network of license plate readers, surveillance company Flock drew up Tags: 404 Media , Flock , privacy , rideshare

Last week, Google released a feature for Google Earth that let anyone use Tags: fake , Google , misinformation , NPR , satellite imagery

Enter text and get some charts using the Datatype font. Theres a bar Tags: font , Frank Tisellano

The Washington Post reports on the large investments in defense tech by the Tags: conflict , defense , government , investments , Washington Post

Reuters reports on the strain of natural gas supplies due to the war Tags: cost , fertilizer , Iran , natural gas , Reuters

This week, we talk colors and categories. Tags: categories , color

Gerrymandle is a daily game that shows areas with voting preferences, and the Tags: game , gerrymandering

Upon discovery of a generated biography on Amazon about her, NYT journalist Kashmir Tags: biography , Kashmir Hill , New York Times

The Washington Post used satellite imagery, photos, and videos from when the blue Tags: error , reflecting pool , Washington Post

This week, I provide an update on my own process from start to finish, in 2026. Tags: workflow

The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning Tags: Financial Times , open-source , Sam Learner , vibe-code

Alexander Bogachev is making animated data portraits for each match: A football match Tags: Alexander Bogachev , soccer , World Cup

Roberto Serrano, a Brown University economics professor, gave a take-home midterm and it Tags: Brown University , cheating , ethics , Inside Higher Ed , Roberto Serrano

This week, a bar chart was the wrong choice. Tags: baseline , tool

Oil companies have funded research for decades to figure out how to store Tags: carbon , pollution , ProPublica , storage