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Why You Already ARE a Data Scientist
An argument that data science is a mindset about designing experiments and using tools to answer questions — not a job title or a specific toolset. A pushback against gatekeeping that argued the curiosity and experimental design skills matter more than the specific technologies.
HERE IS TODAY
Here Is Today is an interactive scale visualization that places today's date against geological and cosmic timescales — a minimalist but viscerally effective demonstration of how visualization can make abstract quantities comprehensible through progressive context.
All of Earth's Water as a Single Sphere
The USGS created a visualization showing all of Earth's water as a single sphere — it's surprisingly small, only about 860 miles in diameter relative to Earth's 7,900-mile diameter. A powerful intuition-corrector for how scarce liquid freshwater actually is.
The Miniature Earth: if Earth had 100 people
The Miniature Earth is a short video that reframes global statistics by imagining Earth as a village of 100 people. A classic early viral edu-video that makes global inequality concrete through proportional scale.