Ghostweather R&D Blog

It's that time of year - time for a recap of what I've been up to! NLP and Toxic Speech I spent a year after I left my teaching...

After 2 years teaching at the business school, my classes had become very popular: hence, huge, and therefore tremendous work to grade and m...

Here's the followup I promised on my post about teaching D3.js to journalism students : A selection from their projects! Their project ...

For PyData Boston, I did a recap of parts of my OpenVisConf talk, with some more technical details added, including an IPython notebook of s...

Here are the slides from my talk at OpenVisConf in Boston in May! The Bones of a Bestseller: Visualizing Fiction from Lynn Cherny ...

I've got a busy few months ahead! Here's where I'll be speaking... PyData SV 2013 in March Peter Wang from Continuum.io ask...

A week ago, I gave a talk at Strata NYC on network visualization ("Beyond the Hairball"). The talk had many technical issues (I...

I thought I'd contribute one story to the "telling stories with data" genre, even if it's a silly one. It's silly ...

I'm a Kindle fan, and an Amazon fan. I really like their media content: I buy Amazon music, Amazon Kindle books, TV shows, Android ap...

In the past couple years, I've switched from sending myself to research conferences (like CHI) to more down-and-dirty developery confere...

In April, I gave a talk at UIUC's HCI department on fan video remix artists, or "vidders," as they are known within the fan me...

The other day I was in a meeting in which evaluation criteria for developers came up; nice concrete stuff, like writing code that other peop...

A response to a number of posts and talks on failure recently, particularly this one by Michael Krigsman, Five Reasons to Discuss Project Fa...

Most of us in interaction design jobs have been asked to do a usability test on something that we don't think is ready for prime time. ...

The guest speakers at SolidWorks World 2009 really brought home to me how wonderful a rigorous design process can be - driving the product d...

Today I ran across a whole class of items that are oddly similar, in different places: drawings animated, in not your usual way. First, ...

I remember when people sniffed at the idea of Amazon being more than books. When Jeff Bezos reinvested all his profit into opening up other...