If you've ever thought that programmers do a bad job explaining things, you're right.

San Francisco’s neighborhoods all have their distinct character. Many are defined by their downtown areas: cafes, restaurants, and bars. But the borders between neighborhoods are hazy and arbitrary. This is my attempt to accurately characterize SF’s neighborhoods. Click on a neighborhood to see its name and some details about it. For the full-screen version, click here. Send hate mail to my Facebook or Twitter.

How do we think about symbols and representation?

The difference between multithreading and multiprocessing in Python.

An exploration of mathematical concepts using insights from programming.

Journalists aren't statisticians.

Cookbook for creating a machine learning web application.

Which languages sound the most alike? You might be surprised.

A tour through the afterlife brought to you by the last surviving Gnostics, the Mandaeans.

Successgul month of being freegan.

100% freegan for a month.

An interactive tree diagram of all the world's major writing systems.

Visualizations of the world's growing (and changing) population.

An exploration of pangrams, language, and history.

Pictures from my trip to Northern Iraq.

My favorite fruit.

An unlawful ascent.