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Tokyo Has 2,496 Stations and No List of Their Songs

August 5, 2026

My wife and I went to Tokyo. It was the first trip we had taken together. I’ve been into trains for a long time,…

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Old Data Processing That Changed History

July 29, 2026

The article was written by Alexey Pomigalov, PhD in history and curator of the DataArt IT Museum, in April 2026. It draws on material…

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Three Ways I Actually Use AI in Data Viz (No Enterprise License Required)

July 22, 2026

What I learned asking people at a data viz conference how they’re really using AI Ask someone at a data conference how they’re using…

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Emojis as Data: Visualizing a Generation Gap

July 17, 2026

Emojis are themselves a form of data visualization: a visual shorthand for expressing our feelings, reactions, and words through text messages and social media…

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The Beautiful Collapse of My Digital Perfection

July 8, 2026

One evening, while scrolling endlessly on my phone, an advert caught my attention: “Pride of Portsmouth” trail. Immediately, my mind shifted from passive to…

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Simulating the Invisible: How Data Humanism Visualizes the AI Energy-to-Wildfire Feedback Loop

June 24, 2026

I design data experiences in the energy industry. Most days, that means translating alarming trends: soaring demand forecasts and grid expansion curves: into something…

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We Taught Students to Read Graphs, but We Forgot to Teach Them to Question Themselves

June 12, 2026

“Who made this? Yes, I’m asking the source. I have to know, I have to know.” This was the first thing Luke said after…

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AI, Orientalism, and “Calm” Art

June 7, 2026

How GPT-4 labeled over half of the world’s art with a single feeling This painting is unmistakably a funeral. Death, in different cultures and…

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How a Simple Glass of Water Makes Global Inequality Impossible to Ignore

May 15, 2026

A minimal, metaphor-driven approach to visualizing global access to safe drinking water — and why simplicity may be the most powerful storytelling tool in…

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Behind-the-Scenes: Semiotic 3 with real-time streaming data

April 29, 2026

I’m releasing a new version of Semiotic, Semiotic 3, with first-class support for real-time streaming data and AI collaboration. You might think the timing…

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