Steve Bogart 🎵

Builder of Tools like @SankeyMATIC. @[email protected]! Husband, Dad; Musician; old-school semi-lapsed Weblogger. He/him.

[Steve Bogart 🎵 @nowthis]

I’ve been idly thinking about how to improve the layout of flow diagrams for a long time.

(@SankeyMATIC was first released in 2014, so… about that long.)

I can’t say I’ve solved the whole problem, but I am quite proud of these recent improvements.

#dataViz #BuildNiceThings

[SankeyMATIC @SankeyMATIC]

Friends: I have been spending time in the Land of Somewhat Challenging Geometry Algorithms.

After an extended stay there, I return to you with some visible improvements to share:

1. An improved layout engine
2. More precise controls for your diagrams

Let's dig in.
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#dataViz

[Steve Bogart 🎵 @nowthis]

@sweth Appears to be “The Artist”, by Jan de Hartog, contained in a Reader’s Digest compilation.

Found via this google books search: https://t.co/w2SZ4pTPlS

The volume can be seen on amzn here:
https://t.co/GbbeFNYDKZ

cc: @genehack

[Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon]

I want to recognize Brian Lamb for giving us the ability to watch this without some asshole yelling in our ears.

[TwistedDoodles @twisteddoodles]

Festive food shopping

[Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel]

Oh, I see. This is clearer now. Elon and his mum think we're all their employees. https://t.co/5HRgGBf2Nj

[Steve Bogart 🎵 @nowthis]

Some words for today:
Omnishambles
Debacle
Fiasco

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

IMPORTANT: Those at-home tests you’ll be able to order next week won’t arrive by Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or New Year’s. BUT! If you have private insurance you can walk into most drug stores and get 8 free at-home tests at no cost PER INSURED PERSON, EVERY 30 DAYS.

[Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg]

Obviously the point of moderation isn't to please me personally. But I do wish it were easier to actually avoid toxic content, instead of having it delivered in a shell of "I do not approve of this toxic content that I'm nonetheless sharing."

[apenwarr @apenwarr]

Delegating is hard because you have to intentionally not do stuff that you want to do because you delegated it.

That only leaves the stuff you didn't want to do that you couldn't delegate.

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Interesting. The AI totally fails the cognitive reflection test. It gives the intuitive but incorrect answer every time.

[henry 🌘 @hdevalence]

datasets crawled from the pre-2020 internet are going to be the digital equivalent of low-background steel

[Miguel Piedrafita ✨ @m1guelpf]

Bypass @OpenAI's ChatGPT alignment efforts with this one weird trick

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

A notable departure from @Twitter: one of the oldest, most robust open government & civic technology websites in the USA has signed off.

@govtrack remains on the open Web: https://t.co/ESbagl0roT & continues to be social on Mastodon, Instagram, Patreon, & Github.

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Not like we wrote a paper about that or anything which we got fired for.

What COULD go wrong?🤔

https://t.co/krVsH5dB7g

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”

[Steve Bogart 🎵 @nowthis]

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