Paul Albert

Data Visualization / Digital Humanities / Computational Social Sciences / Tableau

[ZAYVEN KNOX @ZayvenKnox]

An Anthropic engineer paid for my espresso at Sightglass when he saw my screen

I was running my Polymarket bot from the counter. He was next in line. Looked over my shoulder. Stopped scrolling.

"That's not a normal trading app. What's it actually running on"

I told him. Claude Code. Four repos. $25 a month.

He sat down without asking.

"I'm on the agent team. We stress test Claude for exactly this. You're letting it find its own edges"

Not just edges. Wallets.

86 million trades. Every wallet. Every entry. Every exit.

"You're feeding Claude raw wallet data and letting it identify who consistently wins. Then cloning them"

He said it slowly. Like he was writing the threat model in his head.

One prompt. Find every wallet with 100 plus trades and win rate above 70%. Rank by profit. Export top 50.

Claude scanned 14,000 wallets in 4 minutes. Returned 47.

The top 20 made more than the bottom 13,000 combined.

"That's not a stat. That's a hit list"

Exactly.

"And you didn't write the scoring function"

Claude did. I just wired it into an if-statement.

Then I showed him the second repo.

Official Rust CLI. No API key for reads. 500 markets, Claude scores them in minutes.

Gap. Depth. Resolution window.

487 markets become 35 before a dollar moves.

93% killed before I even see them.

A green fill landed on the screen. +$84.

He watched it hit.

"How does it decide to actually enter"

Three agents. Shared wallet. No shared memory. Arbitrage, convergence, whale copy. 2 agree, full size. 1 alone, half. Disagree, no trade.

Consensus filter alone killed 40% of losing trades.

"And the exits?"

The 47 whales never hold to settlement. 91% exit early. 73% of max profit captured. Redeploy immediately.

My bot cuts at 85% of expected move or on a 3x volume spike.

"You built a whale copy bot that exits before the whales"

Yeah.

He put his espresso down.

"How often does it trade"

10 a day on average. Most of them skipped before I look up from my coffee.

My setup:
Claude API - $20/mo
VPS in Germany - $5/mo
poly_data - free
polymarket-cli - free
Polymarket/agents - free

$200 seed. 27 days ago. $14,300 now.

Copytrade here: https://t.co/zDXGamMWw0…

271 trades. 74% win rate. Sharpe 2.47.

I haven't touched it in 27 days.

He stared at the screen for a long time.

"This is literally what our red team simulates. Except you actually shipped it"

He emailed me the next morning.

"Any chance you'd take a call with our policy lead"

I told him the article is the call. Read it twice.

Too late to gatekeep.

You only need Claude + laptop + 1 hour/day.

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@ZayvenKnox

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@ZayvenKnox Claude

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@WHOOP Thanks. Does it reflect your values and our expectations to offer special order cancelation for orders in process or free return/shipping for those of us who decided on ordering an MG before this change (and now want to go with Peak?).

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

"Bump up" your "bump charts"

A "donut bump chart" not only shows rankings, it also shows the magnitudes behind the rankings.

https://t.co/bYn6jRg8TJ

#viz #datafam #tableau #dataviz #datavisualization

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@PNCBank_Help Hello, Google found me a press release promising no-fee ATMs ("customers in the bank's three new checking accounts also may be able to enjoy free use of the 1 million ATMs worldwide." I'm in Italy, which banks branches/ATMs can I use? Performance checking account

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@DataRemixed Relatively high, but off of peak

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@CesarPicco @tableau 1B on a mid-level Mac, TDE on Desktop. 5 years ago. At some point, it is number of columns that will get you vs number of rows.

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@storywithdata In my opinion, the bullet graph doesn’t get the love it deserves! I think it offers the most widespread potential impact of any chart invented in last century.

[Computational Humanities Research @CompHumResearch]

📢 Registration is now open, dear people! Get your spot while it's hot! 📢

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[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@acotgreave @AdamMico1 @_gringuinho_ @HipsterVizNinja @JaackParry @tableau Something about chromosones?😀

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

Hats off to @willchamp for encouraging evidence-based public policy! Here is my submission for the https://t.co/AIdaQgzX18 Project 1. (I even included a “hidden” (!) dashboard action for #B2VB 2022 W19 challenge). #PublicPolicyViz https://t.co/ssoDkvgITR

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@VizWizBI Your contributions have been so invaluable to me in learning Tableau. Thanks! Your watch me viz episodes are great, not sure how they would work wo MOM. One aspect of Tableau I want to learn more about are diffent ways to use set capabilities/functions/logic.

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@jreevers5 @tableau Pet theory, pie charts are so popular (and misused) today because people were given an easy ability to produce them 30 years ago. Same might become true for mapping. Especially when geography not that salient to point being made. Still, love this one https://t.co/ttsjoaTynZ

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@AlbertoCairo In all fairness to Tufte, this was written as a comment speaking against an environment of the time. All "principles" should be subject to breaking once they are understood.

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@barabasi Some historical analysis of a much older dataset that shares some of your findings! https://t.co/kYm5XdKWzQ

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@barabasi NFL said to systemically over value first round draft picks. https://t.co/vVTCfgvfSu

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@Ajenstat @onepeloton @tableau I’m in! LB #ScatterPlot. Let’s go!

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@jschwabish @miriah_meyer @SayNo2Chartjunk @gotdairyya @altVISworkshop @AlbertoCairo Sure it was a lot of fun for the authors. Possibly alcohol was involved.

[Paul Albert @Vizalyst]

@jschwabish Great question. If I wanted to show overall participation (context is King), maybe a title like "Participant Contribution by Group" showing what you are calling "weighted %." If the different base group sizes are important to the message, I’d lean to further/different vizzes.

[Ann Jackson @AnnUJackson]

It's finally here! Our labor of love, #TableauStrategies, has arrived! To celebrate the release of the book, I'm giving away 5 free digital copies (DRM-free, multiple types available) to those who like & reply or retweet. It'll be open now until the end of the month (9/30).