Readtrack is an experimental tool built during the 2012 NYT TimesOpen Hack Day. It gives music recommendations based on the content you’re looking at by doing semantic analysis of the current…
This is a killer start for a fun little app.
Month: February 2019
👓 About | juliaangwin.com
Julia Angwin (Julia Angwin)Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of a startup nonprofit newsroom that will investigate the impacts of …
I kind of wish Julia was still publishing to her own website… come to think of it, how is she not?
👓 Week 8, puzzle fiction | Robin Sloane
Robin Sloan (Week 8, puzzle fiction)This week,
- Writing.
- I didn’t quite finish that lab reorganization, and not for lack of effort. I'll show you my ahem progress down at the end of the email.
- I received permission from an author’s estate to do a live reading (streamed over the internet) of a novella that I love. This week, I’ll figure out when to do that. It is a really, REALLY good book; in fact I think it’s close to perfect. My rough notion is that I’ll do a different live reading once a season, to complement and balance my annual reading, around Christmastime, of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Olive oil bottling!
👓 The world’s first code-free sparkline typeface | After the flood
Displaying charts in text without having to use code
Data can be hard to grasp however visualising it can make comprehension faster. Sparklines (tiny charts in text, like this: 123{10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100}789) are a useful tool, but creating them for the web has always required code and using them in word documents was previously impossible.
Sparks, now in its second release, is a family of 15 fonts (three variants in five weights each) that allows for the easy combination of text and visual data by removing the need for any technical know-how. By installing the Spark font you can use them immediately without the need for custom code.
I do so love a good vegetable cracker.
