Bathymetry blanket crochet
Jesse Gwinn, from NOAA, was at sea on a mapping expedition and to pass the downtime between tasks, she crocheted a bathymetry blanket: I assigned 11 colors to different depth…
Emoji rain and Bluesky Matrix
Bluesky firehose fun continues. Jared Short shows emoji usage as rain drops that fall down the screen. Larger drops represent longer posts. Or, if the Matrix aesthetic is your thing,…
Exploring Gen AI: Copilot’s new multi-file editing
A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from…
Unbundling the Graph in GraphRAG
One popular term encountered in generative AI practice is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Reasons for using RAG are clear: large language models (LLMs), which are effectively syntax engines, tend to “hallucinate”…
Announcing Metrics Sets are widely available in Preview
The blog post introduces the Metric Sets Public Preview, a feature designed to enhance metric management across organizations by providing a centralized, consistent, and trusted metric system. Key benefits include…
rethinking qualitative analysis
Reflecting on my early days at Google, I recall a project that involved analyzing thousands of free-text comments from our internal survey, Googlegeist. The task was straightforward in concept: distill…
Posting on Bluesky, and other thoughts on social media
With the recent uptick in tech activity on Bluesky, I’ve decided that I will start posting there in addition to my current locations. I’ve also put together my general thoughts…
See you on Bluesky
Bluesky, maybe best pitched as a place for those who liked Twitter and Google Reader more than a decade ago, is having a moment right now. You can find me…
Dot density map for election results
With what is now a common mapping method, The Economist used a dot density map to show election results by county. The dot counts are scaled to population density. At…
