Nontrivial Trivia in twenty-six charts
One section per chapter of Jonn Elledge's book of lists: largest cities, tallest buildings, biggest earthquakes, box office, flagpoles.
Switzerland in 890 lines
Every Swiss men's international since 1905 as one line per match, plus a square-glyph grid of every opponent.
Switzerland runs on a clock
One Wednesday of Swiss rail departures sorted by minute past the hour: sixty small maps and six station dials from the SBB timetable.
Walking Greenpoint
12 stops over the Pulaski Bridge: the oil spill, the Monitor, the pencil factory, the fire, and a cathedral finished by hand.
Walking Long Island City
13 stops from the Pepsi sign to the Queens Plaza clock tower: gantries, a whitewashed factory, a courthouse that split a county.
Walking Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and the East Village
18 stops through four centuries of immigration, infrastructure, food, faith, and neighborhood reinvention.
Walking Tribeca and SoHo
18 stops from the Tweed Courthouse to Old St Patrick's, with a map and subway directions.
Can you trust the probability?
Model scores are rankings, not frequencies. Calibration, expected loss, and when a 0.95 should not be blocked.
One regression, 140 years of machines
Galton's 1886 height problem, fit on every machine from pencil to phone, with how long each took and what it cost.
Treemap Atlas
32 datasets on one zoomable canvas: population, GDP, box office, warheads, and the wealth pyramid.
nrennie tidytuesday gallery
An automatically updated gallery from nrennie/tidytuesday. Explore by topic, year or package, with source code for each plot.
Wire, a Hacker News reader
Explore Hacker News by topic or date, find an unexpected story, and read the discussion.
The biggest India news stories, every year since 1925
Three ranked stories per year, color coded by category, 1925 to 2026.
The biggest US news stories, every year since 1925
Three ranked stories per year, color coded by category, 1925 to 2026.
Turning codebases into visual diagrams
Having Claude render a codebase as an interactive map, with moving dots as inspectable data snippets.
100 years, 100 books
The Goodreads best book of each year since 1925, organized by genre era, dystopia lineage, and grip.
Experimentation reading list
Nine books on experimentation and A/B testing, with the table of contents for each.
Van Gogh, in 33 paintings
His ten years of work told as one story through 33 paintings, sourced from three museum lectures.