Deep dives, original visualizations, and lots of python code. Econ, demographics, urbanism. Former & future investment strategist.
Joined June 2009
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Jun 15
Since 1993: hospitals 436% · college 325% · childcare 258% · TVs −99%.
Baumol's cost disease in one race: a string quartet still takes four musicians, but their wages track the whole economy. If it ships in a container, it got cheap. If a person does it to you, it didn't.
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Jun 12
Every month of US births since 1933, one cell each: the baby-boom mountain, its faint 1990 echo (boomers' own kids), and the ebb to the lowest rate on record in 2023.
h/t @aaronpenne for the form · data @HMDatabase
#dataviz #demographics
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Jun 11
You ever get the feeling that maybe you’re just not a “one shot and see what happens” kind of LLM user?
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Jun 11
The US Baby Boom wasn't a spike. It was a mountain. Women born in 1933 averaged 3.26 kids, the most of any American generation ever. At the 1957 peak, 1 in 4 women aged 22 gave birth that single year. The long ebb since: 1.60 today. Inspired by @salonium's work at @OurWorldInData
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Jun 11
how exciting will the 100,000th 3D game made by @claudeai fable and posted here be? the millionth?
what if the future is just everyone playing their own individually generated game that manifests as you play it?
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Jun 11
🚨Out today in @Nature our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration.
By building the first comprehensive dataset of global annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that migration has nearly tripled since 2000.
🔗nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Jun 11
first @claudeai made outstanding static data visualizations commonplace with Opus 4.6 , now it's not long before Fable does the same for video infographics.
This still took some effort to curate skills and reference materials, but for how long?
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Jun 10
the new @claudeai Fable 5 from @AnthropicAI does an excellent job with video infographics using @HyperFrames_ by @HeyGen ; here's a take on the classic "climate spiral" made with @p5js and @greensock .
#dataviz @ClaudeDevs #climate
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Jun 5
between 2010 and 2023, the proportion of 18-to-24-year-old Americans living with children of their own fell by roughly half.
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April US transit data is in today, & all of the 10 largest US rail networks are growing!
SF is seeing a real boom, with ridership up 17% on Muni & 15% on BART
SEPTA (Philly, 10%) and PATH (NY/NJ, 7%) are also seeing strong growth, while MTS (San Diego, 0.8%) is the slowest🧵
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Jun 5
"Confusion is a good way to get people to rewatch videos, especially videos that are 15 seconds or shorter. Ambiguous content, quick scenes, cutting off the final speaker — these techniques are as essential to A.I. slop as the iamb and rhyme scheme are to a sonnet."
-NYT Mag
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Jun 5
All we achieved with our all vibe coding was to drive down the value of anything we could build by vibe coding
Jun 5
How much value is AI really creating? ft.trib.al/l2fTQCy
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Jun 5
In 1751, the most common age for a Swedish woman to die was zero.
Today it's 90.
42% of deaths were once children under 5. Now it's 0.3%.
Two and a half centuries of progress, in one curve.
using @HMDatabase data #sweden #dataviz
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Jun 5
here's an animated version!
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Jun 3
the problem with "hope scrolling, not doom scrolling" is the part that remains
Jun 3
A short backstory on this one:
A small Google Labs team had an idea to make an app designed to connect you with what matters, without the endless scroll. "Hope scrolling, not doom scrolling" was the hallway pitch. "Go for it."
And today, that little experiment is rolling out.
Meet Dreambeans, a daily dose of inspiration, brewed fresh for you. We're excited to see what you think!
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Jun 3
In the future, the content you create will have value only as training data and context, and everyone will live in their own bias-curated solipsistic GenAI bubble with all interpersonal contact mediated by tech.
Sounds lovely right?
Jun 3
🚨 NEW EXPERIMENT 🚨
Dreambeans is a new, experimental mobile app that uses Personal Intelligence to connect to your Google apps. Every day, it delivers collections of personalized stories, surfacing things you might otherwise miss, alongside topics that are relevant to you, to help you dive deeper into the things you care about most.
Available starting today for eligible US-based Google AI Ultra users ( 18), with an open waitlist found on our website below!
Learn more at labs.google/dreambeans
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Jun 3
There are a TON of sloppy websites out there that only agents would bother to consume, and that's probably the fastest-growing segment of the internet.
this is a supply-side as well as demand-side phenomenon
Jun 3
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic…
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Jun 3
Building and publishing a website is the least-gated way to distribute AI-generated content.
No wonder @Google , the web's de facto gatekeeper, decided to abandon that role.
Pre-training is the only activity hungry enough for data to bother consuming this infinite tail.
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Jun 3
Let's hope we continue to get a stream of new image generation startups that have to release open & permissively licensed models to compete for attention with FLUX .
Jun 3
Introducing Ideogram 4.0: the best open image model in the world.
Think it. Make it. Own it.
Download the weights, fine-tune on your own data, and run it on your hardware. Live on every Ideogram plan and the API today.
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