Advanced Data Graphics
Visualization
AI Synthesis & Market Narrative
Innovation continues in data visualization, including advanced rendering for large datasets using Three.js dithering and GPU instancing. The conceptualization of LLMs as vector spaces implies new challenges and opportunities for visualizing complex AI model internals.
Correlated Linguistic Patterns
["Audio Reactive LED Strips"
"statistical visualization researchers"
"TurboQuant: Reducing LLM Memory Usage"
"Three.js Dithering Visualization"
"GPU-instanced cubes"]
Curiosity Velocity (60 Days)
WIKIPEDIA API
Tracing the intersection of media narratives and actual public search interest. Dashed line is 7-day SMA.
Driving Media Context
Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Hard
Back in 2017, Hackaday featured an audio reactive LED strip project from [Scott Lawson], that has over the years become an extremely popular choice for the p...
William S. Cleveland, RIP
William S. Cleveland, one of the most respected statistical visualization researchers of all-time, passed on March 27, 2026 at 83 years old. From his obituar...
✚ Off the axes
This week we look for ways to diverge towards the unexpected.Tags: chess, difference, thought
TurboQuant: Reducing LLM Memory Usage With Vector Quantization
Large language models (LLMs) aren’t actually giant computer brains. Instead, they are effectively massive vector spaces in which the probabilities of tokens ...
Animating 160,000 Cubes: A Three.js Dithering Visualization
Animating 160,000 Cubes: A Three.js Dithering Visualization
jeff
April 05, 2026
Developer Damar Aji Pramudita's Three.js dithering visualization re...
✚ Accumulating data
This week is about small things adding up to big things.Tags: cumulative
Watch Electricity Slosh: Visualizing Impedance Matching
It’s one thing to learn about transmission lines in theory, and quite another to watch a voltage pulse bounce off an open connector. [Alpha Phoenix] bridges ...
Stop Publishing Garbage Data, It's Embarrassing
Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data. The first instance is the UK government’s fuel finder data. This is a downloadable CSV file of fu...
Chess in SQL
What if I told you SQL could play chess? No JavaScript, no frameworks - just pure SQL rendering a full chess board in your browser.
I've been job hunting for 7 months since being laid off from my consulting job. I cashed out my 401(k) to stay afloat.
Since being laid off from Booz Allen, a consultant has spent seven months job hunting and cashed out his 401(k) to pay down debt.
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