Data Veggies – lasercutting for education

In public settings, it can be quite hard to get folks walking by interested in a data-driven argument about your cause. We often argue that a creative data sculpture can grab their attention. Like maybe a vegetable laser cut with some data about food security! We’ve...

New York Times – US vs. Global Coverage

With colleagues at the MIT Center for Civic Media, I did a deep dive into the archives of the New York Times (via their annotated corpus). One of the results was a poster detailing the domestic vs. international coverage over the last 20 years. You can download a...

LEGO Pan + Tilt webcam base

Webcams are good for conversations, but they don’t offer either conversant any control over the field of view. To remedy this glaring oversight, I built a pan/tilt base for my webcam out of LEGO bricks. The person I was talking to on the other end could log into a...