2022
November
8
November 8, 2022
Labyrinth
7
November 7, 2022
How to write a number
October
27
October 27, 2022
Five Thousand Years of Graphics
April
18
April 18, 2022
Norms and central tendency
with Paul
March
29
March 29, 2022
Data-driven table sort icon
18
March 18, 2022
Recreating Östling’s regression visualizations
3
March 3, 2022
Et al.
January
21
January 21, 2022
How many five digit numbers are prime?
16
January 16, 2022
Warping gridspace
14
January 14, 2022
Chatterjee correlation
with Visnu
5
January 5, 2022
Sampling mood
2021
November
12
November 12, 2021
All Too Well
September
17
September 17, 2021
Parrots of Telegraph Hill
August
20
August 20, 2021
Decimal watersheds
9
August 9, 2021
Eval-in-Place
3
August 3, 2021
Classic Research in Data Visualization
July
9
July 9, 2021
Bitemporal global temperature projections
6
July 6, 2021
Daily Café Picker
with Visnu
June
19
June 19, 2021
Toph and Visnu stream
May
4
May 4, 2021
Plot for D3 Users
March
8
March 8, 2021
Continuous word wrap
February
17
February 17, 2021
How D3 Moved Us
January
16
January 16, 2021
Concentration of Measure
2020
December
14
December 14, 2020
Reflecting on “Vote Cones”
November
27
November 27, 2020
Multiplication and Division by Similar Triangles
22
November 22, 2020
Recursive typed table (sketch!)
3
November 3, 2020
What’s the connection between these two election bar charts?
October
27
October 27, 2020
As votes come in, what would it take for the trailing candidate to win?
18
October 18, 2020
Exploded bitemporal line chart
13
October 13, 2020
Examples of bitemporal charts
July
10
July 10, 2020
An Observable Notebook (annotated source)
7
July 7, 2020
Bitemporal coronavirus cases
June
29
June 29, 2020
How Long Should I Cook My Pasta
May
29
May 29, 2020
Sensitivity and Specificity (sketch)
April
25
April 25, 2020
Coronavirus orbits
17
April 17, 2020
Coronavirus logistic isopleths
April 17, 2020
Building up to John Burn-Murdoch’s Coronavirus tracker
March
20
March 20, 2020
Meditation XVII
2019
October
28
October 28, 2019
Emoji frequencies
2
October 2, 2019
Doing enterprise financial data visualization after data journalism
July
5
July 5, 2019
The Man Comes Around
May
27
May 27, 2019
Where’s the Great American Driving Manual?
April
24
April 24, 2019
Inferring chart type from autocorrelation and other evils
8
April 8, 2019
Bitcoin fractal bubbles
January
9
January 9, 2019
Toph Tucker and Jasmine Lee on Why Restaurant Websites Are Good and We’re All Going to Miss Them
with Laurel, Meg, Jasmine
January 9, 2019
Flag of the Popular Vote
2018
December
31
December 31, 2018
Blankfein
with Max
October
25
October 25, 2018
Restaurant Websites
11
October 11, 2018
Re: “Can Moons Have Moons?”
May
8
May 8, 2018
Mandelbrot’s binomial time bending??
April
7
April 7, 2018
tektodialektik
March
14
March 14, 2018
Tales From the Romeo and Juliet Phase Space
February
7
February 7, 2018
There’s Plenty of Room in the Corners
January
22
January 22, 2018
A Day in the Life of Tony
9
January 9, 2018
Measure text
2017
November
18
November 18, 2017
Thinking out loud: Why are presidential elections so close to 50–50?
September
16
September 16, 2017
Viewport reflowing
May
19
May 19, 2017
notes from a walk by the river at lunch
April
9
April 9, 2017
Confess your unpopular opinion: Twitter is good
February
18
February 18, 2017
Pagerip
4
February 4, 2017
Consciousness Not Necessary for Reason
February 4, 2017
28. A chapter that can be skipped by anyone who has no very high opinion of thinking as an occupation.
January
29
January 29, 2017
Observations from the Boston rally
28
January 28, 2017
Swizzle
15
January 15, 2017
Trump support vs. distance from major city
2016
December
10
December 10, 2016
Trump support vs. distance from sea, final
November
2
November 2, 2016
It is morning and I have woken up…
September
5
September 5, 2016
Trump support vs. distance from sea
August
28
August 28, 2016
The Continuity of Parks
July
21
July 21, 2016
A clock of Toph’s summer
9
July 9, 2016
Typeset gyro
6
July 6, 2016
SkimGuard™
June
29
June 29, 2016
MTA Spaghetti
23
June 23, 2016
The Brexit Game
14
June 14, 2016
A year and 60,000 characters of tweet drafts
May
2
May 2, 2016
Sleepless notes on love and metabolism
May 2, 2016
Experiments in typography
April
11
April 11, 2016
The Design Issue
some page design
6
April 6, 2016
Slacking With Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield
March
9
March 9, 2016
How ETFs Work
February
25
February 25, 2016
Swoopy Arrows
11
February 11, 2016
This morning on the train…
7
February 7, 2016
Eight Things About Super Bowl 50
5
February 5, 2016
When Twitter was young…
January
15
January 15, 2016
A. N. Whitehead, 1911
2015
December
9
December 9, 2015
How Do People Play The Trading Game?
with Adam
November
2
November 2, 2015
Occasionally a previously-unnoticed bias…
October
19
October 19, 2015
The Trading Game
September
18
September 18, 2015
How to Rig Libor
13
September 13, 2015
We laugh at Ray Kurzweil for predicting some kind of exponential-tech-curve-convergence…
August
24
August 24, 2015
How far can we stretch the real number line as a metaphor for thought?
20
August 20, 2015
Sometimes people say things like “Why is there more than one way to do this in an interface?”
19
August 19, 2015
The Ketamine Cure
some graphics
July
3
July 3, 2015
Transformers 4 and the fungibility of all things
June
28
June 28, 2015
Two perspectives on posterity
11
June 11, 2015
What Is Code?
some graphics
May
31
May 31, 2015
I’m standing around the City Hall area…
1
May 1, 2015
What you’re working for
April
26
April 26, 2015
Pronouns (and other pro-forms…
17
April 17, 2015
Apology for astrology
February
6
February 6, 2015
Flipcharts
2014
November
20
November 20, 2014
The Banality of Islamic State
page design
12
November 12, 2014
The 2014 Election Map Without Democrats and Republicans
October
1
October 1, 2014
tilde.club/~toph/
April
3
April 3, 2014
Life per second
February
9
February 9, 2014
Pedantry eats itself
January
13
January 13, 2014
Interactive Demonstration: This Is How You Mine Some Bitcoin
with Allison
2013
December
5
December 5, 2013
Bitcoin's Volatility Problem: Why Today's Selloff Won't Be the Last
November
6
November 6, 2013
Bowdoin Tweeps
October
22
October 22, 2013
How long will it take my ice cream to melt?
September
26
September 26, 2013
Digital traction control
July
22
July 22, 2013
In the valley of the half-invented
1
July 1, 2013
Superlinear social network scaling
April
23
April 23, 2013
On Facebook, your memories are owned by other people
19
April 19, 2013
Schaeffer pseudonymously blogs from the other side of Brunswick
February
3
February 3, 2013
A brief account of the half-forgotten history of Winter Carnival: Ice, Blood, and Bird
January
29
January 29, 2013
Too Few Astronauts Have Died
2012
December
28
December 28, 2012
The Six Beings Who Have Died In Space
27
December 27, 2012
Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups
2
December 2, 2012
What do you want to be when you grow up? The hopes and dreams of 218 Bowdoin students
May
19
May 19, 2012
Dance as we die
March
12
March 12, 2012
Orient BONUS 2.0
February
24
February 24, 2012
Bowdoin class enrollment, 2001–2012
23
February 23, 2012
Size matters: a mathematical addendum
3
February 3, 2012
Metamorphosis
January
14
January 14, 2012
A silly little thought: choices as worthless
2
January 2, 2012
Going further in redesigning Uber’s surge pricing UX
1
January 1, 2012
Go-Bowdoin
2011
November
24
November 24, 2011
A little thanksgiving
October
14
October 14, 2011
R.I.P.: Our Edison, our Disney
September
30
September 30, 2011
The functional illiterates of 1976
11
September 11, 2011
From the archives: “Terror bursts Bowdoin bubble”
August
4
August 4, 2011
Approval Ratings, Vol. IV: May 2011
March
26
March 26, 2011
Godin graphic understates nuclear safety compared to coal by 92%
2010
December
10
December 10, 2010
Technology wreaks havoc on privacy
November
19
November 19, 2010
Gesture-driven Kinect heralds new era in user interfaces
February
19
February 19, 2010
Bowdoin students, staff figure in Olympic history
January
29
January 29, 2010
Naval Air Station runways close tonight
January 29, 2010
Full classes leave students classless
1
January 1, 2010
BSG website
abandoned; date unknown
2009
April
24
April 24, 2009
Campus, town prepare for Ivies Weekend
with Claire
10
April 10, 2009
Local stores contend with slow economy
February
13
February 13, 2009
Data shows dining hall traffic peaks at 1 p.m.
2008
October
3
October 3, 2008
Electronic books slow to catch on
September
19
September 19, 2008
RIAA continues effort to end illegal downloads
2001
June
7
June 7, 2001
tophtucker.com
date of first archive