"Machine learning is an ostensibly technical field crashing increasingly on human questions." – Brian Christian (The Alignment Problem) Some current readings that are shaping our thoughts:

Here is a sneak peek of our forthcoming story on How to measure diversity. Diversity reflects the variety in land use mix, income groups, and demographics within a geographic area. Paradoxically, the most diverse cities are often the most segregated.

To learn more about him, you can also check out our story on The power of interactive tools: morphocode.com/the-power-of-…

🎬 An excellent documentary dedicated to the life and work of Douglas Engelbart - one of the visionaries of human-computer interaction of the 50s and 60s. youtube.com/watch?v=_7ZtISeG…

Apollo's archives provide some great examples of interface design. Hundreds of controls and displays were located in the cabin of the command module. The four basic types were toggle switches, rotary switches, thumbwheels, and push-buttons.🚀hq.nasa.gov/alsj/CSM10_Displ…

A couple of decades later, Charles and Ray Eames released a short documentary inspired by Boeke's 40 jumps. The movie is recognized as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and explores the notions of scale even more vividly. youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDj…

"I began the project because of the importance of developing a sense of scale" - We love to revisit Kees Boeke's legendary 40 jumps through space. The cover is an excellent example of #smallmultiples. 👉vendian.org/mncharity/cosmic…

Learn more about the design and development of the @MTA NYC Subway "live map" in a new short documentary by @gary_hustwit. Great work by @workandco via @FPlanCroissant vimeo.com/469980256

A wonderful tool by @ITDP_HQ explaining what walkability is, how to measure it, and why cities that are good for babies are good for the entire population.👏 pedestriansfirst.itdp.org/

"A city's racial and ethnic mix is a product of history and geography." - love this week's post by @CityObs ! It presents data on the white/non-white dissimilarity index to show the level of racial segregation in the 50 largest US metro areas. cityobservatory.org/most_seg…

Hey @_stalsh 👏 Thanks for the kind words! Happy to hear that you've enjoyed the course!❤️

From 1965 to 1969, Hansjörg Mayer published 26 issues of an influential visual poetry broadsheet named after Futura typeface. Some of our favorite pieces include Peter Schmidt's "programmed squares," Frieder Nake's "computer grafik," and Wolf Vostell's "de coll age." 🤓

@brooklynhistory just launched their new Map Portal providing public access to nearly 1,500 digitized maps: mapcollections.brooklynhisto… It's a beautiful collection!👏 via @Jill_hubley #mapping

Great work visualizing outbreak dynamics!

Some of our favorite dot-density maps come from the 1915 Report to the Civic Transportation Committee for Toronto. The report features a ton of excellent maps covering topics like passenger movement, daily traffic volumes, and population density. maps.library.utoronto.ca/dat… #dataviz

Thanks! It's a small world :) We actually used to live in Paris for a while 🌎