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I had a stupid/clever idea about a pie chart that adds up to more than 100%. Still haven't found the right textures (or actual data to plot).
Observable's new dataflow visualizer is so rad!
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introducing-visual-dataflow
Introducing Visual Dataflow

When I tried to write my first notebook in Observable, I was intrigued and confused. I knew there was some “magic” going on: things automatically updated when other things changed. The trouble was, which things and which things? I expected some things to automatically update and they didn’t. And I expected other things to stick around like normal, but instead they got wiped away by automatic updates I hadn’t expected. I was fighting the grain of the tool. It took a while to figure out what was going on; onl

I have followed through on my threat to get better at Boggle.

I made a janky simulation inspired by Harry Stevens's awesome Washington Post piece.

https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/bouncing-balls-not-a-model-for-virus-transmission

Bouncing Balls (Not a model for virus transmission)

An Observable notebook by Alex Wein.

I titled a Spotify playlist "distancing" and was pretty impressed with the algorithmic suggestions.
noise: rainbow road rects

An Observable notebook by Alex Wein.

noise

An Observable notebook by Alex Wein.

I've been thinking about "U"
Gramener released a fun little charting tool built on Nicky Case's joy.js. Super fun and really easy to make terrible charts https://gramener.com/joyfuldata/
https://tinyurl.com/rx58zyj
Joyful Data — make happy little data visuals; via @gramener

Bring your own datasets, design custom visuals in a live, interactive editor and save & share