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100,000 Arrows
Ideas — like arrows — should be accepted from anywhere.
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Gathering Arrows
Gathering Arrows
The famous tale of Zhuge Liang and his arrows from Romance of the Three Kingdoms teaches us to accept borrowed arrows in our battles.
Bryan B.
Jan 11, 2017
Podcast Transcripts
Podcast Transcripts
What if you could easily find the name of that super interesting person your favorite podcast interviewed?
Bryan B.
Apr 28, 2019
Reading List à la Anki
Reading List à la Anki
You probably know about spaced repetition, and the mega-popular software based on it, Anki.
Bryan B.
Sep 29, 2018
Visualizations outside the current toolbox
Visualizations outside the current toolbox
Here’s a scenario I find myself in quite often: “Oh, I’ve got an idea for a good visualization for this, that is outside the basic chart…
Bryan B.
Apr 12, 2018
Adventures in Quiet Places
Adventures in Quiet Places
This idea came from looking at the world map and noticing the Kuril Islands.
Bryan B.
Feb 27, 2018
Variations on 3-word locations
Variations on 3-word locations
Recently Emily Fuhrman(@_E_F on Twitter) tweeted about a new project of hers that combines a few types of data I love into something…
Bryan B.
Dec 30, 2017
Alpha-numeric-semantic equations
Alpha-numeric-semantic equations
As mentioned before, I’m a huge fan of HaggardHawks on Twitter. And recently HH has branched out a bit further to Instagram.
Bryan B.
Dec 5, 2017
Journalist <match> Data Scientist
Journalist <match> Data Scientist
Today I got an email from data.world—which is a neat website that I’ve found some nice datasets on—that was soliciting help for a reporter…
Bryan B.
May 5, 2017
Single word definitions
Single word definitions
Recently someone mentioned to me that words that have single meanings are the best words to use for technical manuals and explanations—due…
Bryan B.
May 2, 2017
Be the Void is lonesome in Dr. Dog’s discog
Be the Void is lonesome in Dr. Dog’s discog
I have a suspicion!
Bryan B.
Mar 16, 2017
Tomato complaints (time-boxing whining sessions)
Tomato complaints (time-boxing whining sessions)
There is much out there about time-boxing, and the Pomodoro technique. Most often you hear about this as a productivity hack, and over the…
Bryan B.
Feb 24, 2017
Anti-Zipfian
Anti-Zipfian
To what degree can one write in a pattern that defies Zipf’s law? Obviously, short texts avoid it most simply, but how about longer…
Bryan B.
Feb 22, 2017
A simple data viz for chronological text
A simple data viz for chronological text
Today I was thinking about documents that have some chronological nature, and I realized there is a simple data visualization that can…
Bryan B.
Jan 27, 2017
Google Home/Pine 64 Audio
Google Home/Pine 64 Audio
I kick-started the Pine 64, and while it is still stuck in it’s box, I’m pretty excited to do something with it. As an audio snob, I’ve…
Bryan B.
Jan 24, 2017
Creating a database of signs from the Women’s March
Creating a database of signs from the Women’s March
There is an enormous number of moving signs from the Women’s march yesterday. I believe it should be do-able to:
Bryan B.
Jan 22, 2017
Classify venues in Bay Area by monthly listeners on Spotify
Classify venues in Bay Area by monthly listeners on Spotify
This is a pretty standard classification problem. I think it’d be interesting and fun to look at the venues in the Bay Area in this way.
Bryan B.
Jan 21, 2017
Visualize Organisms who’ve been sequenced
Visualize Organisms who’ve been sequenced
I was looking at this story http://www.yourgenome.org/facts/timeline-organisms-that-have-had-their-genomes-sequenced and I was disappointed…
Bryan B.
Jan 20, 2017
Beauty in software
Beauty in software
I’ve recently been reading about beauty in a few contexts, from a few books. I think it’s worth exploring the notions of beauty as applied…
Bryan B.
Jan 14, 2017
Daily Spikes
Daily Spikes
Lately at my job(Blue Bottle Coffee) I’ve been doing some “spikes” for various projects and ideas.
Bryan B.
Jan 14, 2017
Data driven grammar assistant
Data driven grammar assistant
Often I find myself thinking,
Bryan B.
Jan 13, 2017
Top ten top ten top tens
Top ten top ten top tens
A purely frivolous idea:
Bryan B.
Jan 13, 2017
Was 2016 really that bad?
Was 2016 really that bad?
I know, I know, it’s been done: https://medium.com/@jasoncrease/was-2016-especially-dangerous-for-celebrities-79d79b9fae02#.dn12n55c7
Bryan B.
Jan 11, 2017
How programmable are these reps
How programmable are these reps
Yesterday I saw this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1479 which is a fairly whimsy paper, but it got me thinking about a few things:
Bryan B.
Jan 11, 2017
Haggard Scrabble Twitter Bot
Haggard Scrabble Twitter Bot
I really like the Twitter account Haggard Hawks and I was recently inspired by this tweet:
Bryan B.
Jan 11, 2017
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