Nathan Yau

To demonstrate how easy and cheap it is to access the Bluesky firehose, Final Words listens for deletion events and lets them fly and vanish from existence.

Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that fall down the screen . Larger drops represent longer posts.

Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to pass the downtime between tasks, she crocheted a bathymetry blanket

Speaking of data blankets , the knitting club in the area I live has an annual tradition of making sweaters for trees in their downtown. One of the trees was wrapped with a temperature blanket.

Foursquare, which I thought was still a location sharing app but is a data platform now, open sourced a layer of 100 million points of interest in an effort to build and maintain a global database:

We like to imagine a world of autonomous robots that take care of tedious tasks so that we don't have to. Chris Fenton likes to imagine robots made of garbage that roam around his backyard , and Grasso was born:

Our World in Data is a hub for research and reliable data to measure the progress of the world. You've always been able to download data from the site, but they just made it easier with more detailed exports and an API

Hi. Nathan Yau here. This is the Process , the newsletter for FlowingData members about making and using visualization and data.

Martin Wattenberg drew up a live visualization that shows colors mentioned in Bluesky posts , via the firehose. Just let the wave of calm wash over you.

Memento Movi , a mini-app by Michael Condouris, is what you get when you use movies as a progress bar for life expectancy. Enter your birthdate and expected lifespan.