shri
@shrikhalpada
creative coder, data nerd, preferrer of democracy also into coffee shops, guitar noodling, hoops, and playing chess poorly data viz: creative coding:
tl;dr, we compress away most of the color data to save space because we're bad at perceiving it
messing around with some movie data for the next newsletter! I really enjoyed both Obsession and Backrooms and that sent me down the rabbit hole of horror movie profitability
I channeled my frustration by cracking open my p5 editor this evening and writing some code "by hand" felt really nice!
messing around with a chart for our next newsletter: the top 16 teams in the WC broken down by the countries of the clubs their players play in! Colombia and Morocco have the most "diverse" teams by this metric with 13 and 12 clubs respectively England and Spain, unsurprisingly, only have 4
this but michael scott is big tech, pizza by alfredo is AI-generated content, alfredo's pizza cafe is the internet before 2016, and the rest of the office is all of us
i never thought about it for this use case, but the demo in my QR code explainer is probably a better UX for creating QR codes than a lot of QR code generator websites perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...
Preview of the next "How The Heck" piece, where we'll be diving into how synths work! (tl;dr it's sine waves all the way down)
solar has one of the most dramatic cost slopes in the history of anything ever (chart from my recent piece: perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...)
really cool shoutout from The Guardian on my How The Heck piece (thanks @joshnicholas.com!)
a while ago, I shared an essay I wrote about AI music, featuring an experiment where the user had to guess which clip was real vs. AI a few thousand votes in, my suspicion feels validated: it's very hard to tell even with that, I feel very hopeful about human art perthirtysix.com/is-music-jus...
had some time this weekend to *manually* write some code to make a chart and it was great! this is a lil self-tracked data viz about my month walking it's a bit over the top, but for my audience of one, I really like the quintuple-encoded dots (temperature, steps, humidity, rain, and date)
I wrote about the Victorian history, physical sensor mechanisms, and networked logic of traffic lights! This is the fifth installment in the "How The Heck" series, following QR codes, GPS, Shazam, and solar panels. Hope you enjoy it! perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-traffic-lights-work
For the 5th installment of the "How The Heck", we'll be going down the surprisingly interesting rabbit hole of... traffic lights!
For today's newsletter, we revisit this White House chart crime perthirtysix.com/newsletters/...