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NEW from me: New Yorkers are about to do ranked-choice voting. What is that? And why do its supporters say it better represents the will of the people? This story features interactive voting simulations that should help you grok how it all works. washingtonpost.com/politics/inter… 1/9

🏄‍♀️ For your surfing pleasure 🏄‍♂️ The Climate Issue: parametric.press/issue-02/ Our second issue brings you five articles analyzing our climate’s past, present, and future. Deepen your understanding with these personalized and interactive data stories created by our talented authors

Here's a preview of (one) simulation from our new article "Making sense of COVID19 through simulations" r2d3.us/covid-19/

OUTBREAK — 🆕 interactive essay Explore travel restrictions and social distancing. Learn how #FlatteningTheCurve reduces fatalities. All with playable simulations. meltingasphalt.com/interactive/ou…

Everyone read this and please share, especially if you know anyone who is hitting the bars or acting like they’re not part of a huge social puzzle. Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” - Washington Post washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…

📓 WE'RE BACK 📓 Now accepting submissions for Issue 02: The Climate Issue 🌏🌍🌎 This issue will feature interactive articles that use data viz & interactive graphics to create new ways of seeing the global warming crisis and humanity's paths forward. parametric.press/issue-02/call-…

What is a Day? If you've never thought about it before, you can dig yourself into a hole trying to answer this. My latest creation is an interactive video that tries to dig you out again. labs.minutelabs.io/what-is-a-day Let me know what you think, Internet.

Learn the fundamentals of synthesis with our new, interactive website: learningsynths.ableton.com #learningsynths

GOING CRITICAL — a 🆕 interactive essay! How to prevent disease, control nuclear reactions, and encourage the spread of ideas. All with playable simulations. meltingasphalt.com/interactive/go…

🏄‍♂️ For your surfing pleasure! 🏄‍♀️ The first issue of the Parametric Press is here! Check out the data-driven stories, explorable explanations, and interactive fiction that these talented authors and editors put together. Details in thread. parametric.press/issue-01/

📣 Announcing an experimental new tool for thought 🚨 @michael_nielsen and I have been wondering: what happens if we take powerful ideas from cognitive science and deeply integrate them into explanations? Our first experiment in a new "mnemonic" medium: quantum.country/qcvc

"Berlin 8 a.m." - the newest #ComplexityExplorable on traffic dynamics, congestion, and phantom traffic jams. With special thanks for inspiration to @DirkHelbing and instructional advice to @AndiScheuer complexity-explorables.org/explorables/tr…

Six useful programming snippets from @spillybones: blog.bruce-hill.com/6-useful-snipp…

A (very) short intro to Constraints, which are fundamental to a variety of algorithms ranging from filtering and inverse kinematics to physical simulation zalo.github.io/blog/constrain…

The "trigonometry for #gamedev" slideshow is finished! It's got 26 slides (they all have captions, which aren't shown here), more than half of the slides are interactive, and it progresses from zero-trig-knowledge to making-a-homing-rocket demoman.net/?a=trig-for-ga…

I'm finally finished with my article: An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms! ⭐️ jezzamon.com/fourier ⭐️ Want to learn about practical uses of Fourier transforms? ✅ How about pointless but cool uses of Fourier transforms? ✅

You can write an interactive story like you've seen on the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, or Explorable Explanations, even if you have no technical background... and you can get compensated up to $1,000 to do it. parametric.press

Introducing: The @ParametricPress An experimental digital magazine dedicated to showcasing the expository power that’s possible when the audio, visual, and interactive capabilities of the web are effectively combined. Call for proposals now open! 👉 parametric.press

It's only 3 months late, but I finally finished my @explorables jam entry! "A Geometric Intuition for Linear Discriminant Analysis". It's about seeing high dimensional data and is more fun than it sounds. @ncasenmare omarshehata.github.io/lda-explorable/