Parts And Parcels
April 23, 2012 –Here at Casa Von Worley, when fresh data strolls though the door, the first thing I do is test its mettle – with a quick-n-dirty visualization. And so, some months ago, to explore my nascent Growth Rings concept, I downloaded the U.S. Census block geometries, colored them randomly, and plotted a map of San Francisco.
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Hawaiian Steeps
April 10, 2012 –Bradford Street was getting nervous. Two years ago, I’d crowned it as San Francisco’s – and possibly the world’s – steepest. But now, online chattered a successor to the throne: Hawaii’s WaipiĘ»o Valley Road, which reputedly cascades 900 vertical feet to the Pacific at a maximum grade of 45%!
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Raining A Deficit
February 15, 2012 –Is California headed into a drought? Should we expect a tardy parade of storms – the mythical March Miracle – to bury the Sierra and refill our reservoirs? Or will high pressure lock down the North Pacific, nudge the jet stream towards Alaska for good, and doom us to eight more months of summer?
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Where The 0.05% Live
January 17, 2012 –Hello there, friend. I’m the country. Chances are, within the past week or three, you flew over or motored right through me. And that’s okay, of course – life’s hectic, and it’s a long way from here to there. But I miss you.
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Rank Candidates, Pie Edition
November 29, 2011 –Now, to accentuate the late round action, a few circular variations of our San Francisco 2011 mayoral election ranked choice voting visualizations.
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Rank Candidates
November 18, 2011 –Inspiration comes in many forms, and most recently, as the following carrot, dangled in front of my face by fellow blogger Burrito Justice:
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Viz The Seasons
November 16, 2011 –Watch daylight ebb and flow, fog linger and break, and storms bluster and clear in Ken Murphy’s wonderful A History Of The Sky: a calendar-style time-lapse chronicle of the heavens above San Francisco.
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One To Many To One
November 2, 2011 –Rarely is something so squarely up my alley as DARPA’s Shredder Challenge. Simply download five shredded documents, reassemble the puzzles within, submit your answers, and claim a share of the $50,000 prize.
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