Last year, we visited the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library and spent some time with an incredible collection of historical maps. After diving into everything from 16th-century maps of dragons to modern geographic data visualizations, Karlie shared some thoughts on how map-making has transformed over the time.

You can read the blog post at

https://www.fathom.info/notebook/260122/

In the latest post on our blog, Katherine reflects on how we've been thinking and talking about generative AI in the studio.

https://www.fathom.info/notebook/260109/

Thanks, Jasper, for this detailed write-up about using Rowboat to look at Dutch vehicle registration data! It's always a nice boost to hear that the tool is useful and helps with doing this kind of exploration more easily.

https://blog.kenteken.tv/2025/10/15/snelle-data-analyses-met-tool-rowboat/

We just pushed out our last big batch of Rowboat improvements and fixes before the end of the year.

Fun fact: the most long-lived issue that we managed to close in this time was one that had been open for 2 years and 4 months. Feels good to finally get that one resolved!

This year we celebrated the holidays by gathering together our favorite cozy winter treats and comfort meals to share with our friends and families.

You can visit the charming animated cookbook Paul put together to read, print, and share our recipes: https://www.fathom.info/holiday/25/

If you're feeling nostalgic, you can also revisit the last few years of Fathom holiday gifts here: https://www.fathom.info/holiday/

Wishing you all a joyful holiday season and a happy new year!

As is now tradition, Ellory put together a year end recap to keep our avid fans updated on all we’ve been up to (both in and out of the office) in 2025.

It’s now up on our blog if you would like to check it out: https://www.fathom.info/notebook/251217/

Wishing you all a safe and restful holiday season!

Last month, we shared that Sentinel, our collaboration with the Sabeti Lab and IGH, has been awarded the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change grant.

We wrote a bit more about the news, reflecting on how this project came to be and how it continues to give us hope: https://www.fathom.info/notebook/251121/

We are beyond excited that our collaboration with the Sabeti Lab and IGH to develop an outbreak detection and response framework has been awarded the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change grant!

Congratulations to the entire Sentinel team — we look forward to continuing our work building much-needed tools for pandemic prevention.

You can read the full announcement here: https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/sentinel-awarded-100-million-to-prevent-pandemics

We just launched a desktop version of Rowboat!

* Open much larger files (offline!)
* Own Desktop as a one-time purchase.
* Use a double-clickable app that’s even faster than the web version.

Browser or desktop, your data never leaves your machine.

Read more: https://www.fathom.info/notebook/251106/