Visual guide for the fires in Australia
For The Guardian, Niko Kommenda and Josh Holder provide a visual guide to the bushfires in Australia: Satellite data from Nasa showed a stark increase in the number of fire…
Six AI Strategies – But Only One Winner
Summary: The results are in. There is only one demonstrably successful strategy for creating big wins for AI-first companies. We’ll briefly summarize the other contenders that have fallen by the…
Weight gain lines
From Kim Warp for The New Yorker. Ha. Ha. It’s funny because it’s true. It reminds me of Amanda Cox’s dress size graphic for the NYT. [Thanks, Mike] Tags: humor,…
8 AI trends we’re watching in 2020
We see the AI space poised for an acceleration in adoption, driven by more sophisticated AI models being put in production, specialized hardware that increases AI’s capacity to provide quicker…
Four short links: 7 January 2020
Coding Interview Problems Solved in Go — see also some in Rust, and the best coding interview take ever, by Aphyr. Because thinly veiled excuses to use dynamic programming or…
#SWDchallenge: small multiples
Happy new year! To celebrate the onset of 2020, we’ve decided to focus the SWD challenge on a visual that historically hasn’t received much attention from us—but can come in…
Draw a ridgeline map showing elevation, for anywhere on Earth
Ridgeline charts or frequency trails use parallel lines that overlap on the fluctuations, which creates a 3-D effect at the peaks. Andrei Kashcha used this method to show elevation around…
Rethinking programming
We need to rethink the role of the programmer Look for the industry to become more stratified and specialized. The programming world will increasingly be split between highly trained professionals…
Four short links: 6 January 2020
An Excess of Operating Systems (Jean-Louis Gassée) — Fuschia exists for technical reasons, but Samsung’s, Amazon’s, Huawei’s, etc., are all for business reasons (not wanting to tithe or be tied…