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Apr 29, 2018

Mapping Travel Times with malariaAtlas and Friction Surfaces

Let’s say I’m somewhere in Colorado, and I want to go up a mountain. A big one, over 14,000 feet. About how long would it take, using the fastest overland travel methods available, for me to get to the top of one of those peaks? An exciting new set of…

Data Visualization

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Mapping Travel Times with malariaAtlas and Friction Surfaces
Mapping Travel Times with malariaAtlas and Friction Surfaces

Oct 22, 2017

Code as identity, code as creation

My first encounter with coding was when I was 12 or 13 and my mother tried to teach me how to make a website with HTML. It sounded confusing and boring and I was more interested in reading books, so I gave up. My second encounter was as a freshman…

Programming

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Code as identity, code as creation
Code as identity, code as creation

Jul 10, 2015

The naming of things

plants, death, and inequity Agave parryi at the Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle. Photo by the author A growing family of succulents sits in my office, rudely overtaking what was supposed to be a shared coffee table. They have the most beautiful names. The Senecio rowleyanas, a ‘string of pearls’…

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The naming of things
The naming of things

Jan 2, 2015

The Consequence of Observation

How measurement affects health, for better and for worse Photo by saraluv on flickr This is not an article about the Heisenburg uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle makes a statement about the fundamental properties of wavelike systems — namely, that you cannot know both the position and momentum of a…

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The Consequence of Observation
The Consequence of Observation
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