Bluesky's decentralized approach to social media has the potential to bring back the fun and possibility of the early web.
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Over thirty thousand cherry and plum trees will be blooming across Seattle this spring. This map can help you find new blossom-watching spots in your neighborhood.
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How many Seattleites can walk to fulfill their daily needs?
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Investigating the density and diversity of Seattle's neighborhoods compared to other cities on the west coast.
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Using a new method to estimate excess mortality across small populations, we assess patterns of COVID-19 excess mortality by province, year, week, age group, and sex in Italy from March through May 2020.
Digging into an investigative report on interest group spending at Trump properties.
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This tutorial describes how to add interactive data visualizations to Jekyll blog posts, when Jekyll strips Javascript by default.
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I compare my experiences using four different web frameworks to create a personal website, focusing on the questions of time, control over style, and interactivity from the perspective of a web development novice.
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We map the effort to eliminate child mortality at the district level across 99 low- and middle-income countries, tracking 123 million child deaths between 2000 and 2017. While substantial progress has been made across nearly all countries, we found that 58% of deaths during this time could have been averted in the absence of within-country inequality.
Using spatially-resolved vital registration data from 2000 to 2015, we find both substantial reductions and persistent inequalities in HIV and TB deaths across 5,400 municipalities in Brazil.