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2025

October 8 Halloween in the Round · October 3 Iterating some sample data · August 21 The Road to Selfdom · August 7 Blueberry Hill · July 22 The Sound of Silence · July 9 Embeddable Mac · June 28 American · June 26 Razor, Gun, Fence · June 18 Oh Leave it Out · June 9 LA County Population · February 20 TSA Screening Volume and Epiweeks · February 19 MTA Ridership · February 16 Burn Notice · February 6 Kerning and Kerning in a Widening Gyre ·

2024

October 12 Halloween Data Cleaning · September 6 Dr Drang and the Electoral College · July 17 Apple's First Post-Taboola Event · June 1 A New York City Adults and Children Dotmap · May 31 A New York City Race and Ethnicity Dotmap · May 30 A Population Dotmap of New York City · May 29 Race and Ethnicity in New York City · May 20 Harrison White 1930--2024 · May 16 New York City's POC Population · May 8 Inspirational Quotes · April 16 Six to Ten Hours of Poly-Processing · April 15 gssr is now two packages: gssr and gssrdoc · April 12 Daily Average Sea Surface Temperature Animation · April 9 The Eclipse via Satellite · April 4 Make Your Own NOAA Sea Temperature Graph · April 1 gssr Update · March 28 Book Day · March 14 Pi Day Circles · March 3 A PCoA of New York City Neighborhoods and Street Tree Species · February 29 New York City's Street Tree Species · February 29 Street Tree Diameters and Income in New York City Neighborhoods ·

2023

December 21 The Ordinal Society Site · December 20 The Baby Boom Again · December 6 Dorling Cartograms · December 2 gssr Update · August 10 Flipbookr for Quarto · June 19 The Naming of Stats · May 10 Free Speech Tsar · March 30 Assault Deaths in the OECD 1960-2020 · March 29 Life Expectancy and Health Spending in the OECD · March 25 Reading Remote Data Files · January 8 Escaping the Malthusian Trap ·

2022

July 22 Unhappy in its Own Way · June 29 Skyline Timeline · June 24 New York Building Ages · June 23 Manhattan Building Heights · May 20 Every Springer Math Text · May 11 Academia Explained · April 27 Map and Nested Lists · April 10 Indexing Iterations with set_names() · April 8 Iterating on the GSS · February 15 Clustering Pundits · February 14 Desktop Mac ·

2021

December 19 Comparing Distributions · October 30 The Polarization of Death · October 21 Excess Deaths in 2020 · October 9 Building a PDP-11/70 Kit · September 3 Covid Trajectories · May 4 Map, Walk, Pivot · May 2 Contributions to the Literature · February 24 Excess Deaths February Update · January 26 Income and Happiness · January 8 What Happened? ·

2020

December 18 Cross National Death Rates · October 10 Excess Deaths Overview · October 8 Excess Deaths by Jurisdiction · October 6 Excess Deaths by Cause · October 1 Walk the Walk · September 26 National Weekly Death Rates · September 24 US Excess Mortality · September 14 Dataviz Interview · August 25 Some Data Packages · June 3 The Politics of Disorder · May 23 Get Apple's Mobility Data · May 21 The Kitchen Counter Observatory · May 9 Covid Concept Generator · April 28 New Orleans and Normalization · April 23 Apple's COVID Mobility Data · April 16 Upset Plots · April 10 Covdata Package · March 28 This Is Just to Try to Say · March 27 A COVID Small Multiple · March 21 Covid 19 Tracking · March 15 U.S. Census Counts Data · March 14 Animating U.S. Population Distributions · March 7 This Be the Kirsch · March 5 Spanish Flu · February 26 A New Baby Boom Poster · February 18 Dataviz Workshop at RStudio::conf ·

2019

November 10 Cleaning the Table · November 9 Reading in Data · October 28 Dogs of New York · October 27 Reconstructing Images Using PCA · October 21 Widening Multiple Columns Redux · October 15 Parsing Sda Pages · August 3 Rituals of Childhood ·