Golden Data

Dashboards

Field notes

Public-data work, rebuilt natively on the site. Questions I chased for their own sake — happiness, economics, mobility, odd corners of history — followed where the data led. Interactive, reskinned to the house style, not embedded in an iframe.

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  • A blue-and-teal screenprint of JD Vance at a lectern beside the title “Laid Off, Still Sponsoring” and the subtitle “Five big employers cut jobs and raised new H-1B sponsorship in the same year.”

    Laid Off, Still Sponsoring

    Economics

    The government called out firms that lay off Americans and hire overseas. Who actually did both.

    Published
    Oct 9, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • The Peter Bent Brigham Building, screenprinted in teal, above “4,000 nurses” and a calendar page for October 14, 7 a.m.: Brigham and Women’s nurses start an open-ended strike, the largest in Massachusetts history, unless a contract comes first.

    Less Than Inflation

    Economics

    Brigham nurses strike October 14 for a raise under Boston’s inflation. Mass General Brigham offers 0% across the board.

    Published
    Oct 9, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • A blue-and-teal screenprint of Theo Von raising one finger, beside a big “284 years”: a nurse at Advocate Health would work 284 years to earn the CEO’s 2024 pay. A row of sixteen squares, four filled orange: true at 4 of 16, and on base salary alone at none.

    The 200-Year Nurse

    Economics

    Nurse pay vs. hospital CEO pay: Theo Von’s 200 years, checked against 16 filings.

    Published
    Oct 3, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • A day-by-day strip of every housing scrape since June: rows for whether a scrape shipped and whether the gate would pass or refuse the rent and buy files, with full-orange refusals for corrupted data labelled “182 vanished”, “107 vanished”, “115 duplicates”, “81 duplicates” and “158 duplicates”, pale-orange refusals for stale “active” labels filling most days since July, under bands marking the laptop era and the GitHub Actions era.

    The Scrape Gate

    AI & agents

    Every scrape since June replayed through the gate that refuses bad runs.

    Published
    Sep 27, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Beside the heading “Ten of 2025’s top 25 girls’ names are back from the 1900s” and the figure “1 in 7”, four lines from 1880 to 2025 for Eleanor, Violet, Nora and Hazel: each peaks before 1930, sinks almost to zero through the 1980s, and climbs back to about 4 per 1,000 girls, with a note that only 90 girls were named Hazel in 1983.

    Back from the 1900s

    Population

    Hazel, Violet, Theodore and 81 more names that nearly vanished and came back.

    Published
    Oct 10, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Beside the heading “Every state fell; none has been at replacement since 2018” and a ranked list of the steepest falls with Utah sixth, a tile map of every state’s change in the total fertility rate from 2005 to 2024, darkest where it fell most, with Utah ringed in orange, above Utah’s line falling from the top of every state’s.

    Below Replacement, Even in Utah

    Population

    Fifty states below replacement, and why Utah fell furthest.

    Published
    Sep 27, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • The odds of still being alive at each age, flat at 100% up to a “You · 40” marker and falling to 60% at 80, drawn above a grid of week squares — one column per year of age — with lived weeks filled, weeks ahead outlined, this week in orange and orange dots where two kids were born.

    Four Thousand Weeks

    Wellbeing

    Your life in weeks, your odds of reaching each age, and who gets the rest.

    Published
    Sep 22, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • The tally as published, 1,604 references to Jesus Christ in a hatched bar against 104 for Joseph Smith and 92 for President Nelson, beside the heading “One conference, three names, two rulebooks” and above a table of what went into each count: pronouns, titles and the Church’s name for Christ, and no stated rules for the other two.Work in progress

    Counting Christ

    Faith

    A newspaper’s tally of 1,604 references to Christ, checked line by line.

    Published
    Sep 27, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Beside the heading “A record count at half the pace”, convert baptisms per year since 1975 climb to a 2025 record while converts per 1,000 members fall by half, above full-time missionaries and missionaries per 1,000 members, with two surges after lowered age limits.

    50 Years of LDS Growth: Record Counts, Not Record Growth

    Faith

    Every record conceded, then set beside the per-member rates that halved.

    Published
    Sep 22, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • The Canyonlands 50 Mile course drawn in orange over an OpenStreetMap base with its aid stations pinned, beside the DEM-sampled elevation profile and the finish projections.

    Past Thirteen Miles

    Personal data

    Every long run since 2020 from Strava, and the ultras sized up one by one.

    Published
    Sep 13, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Scatter plot of lifestyle, supplement, and medical interventions plotted by friction against expected payoff, with a shaded high-leverage corner in the top left.

    Leverage Map

    Wellbeing

    Interventions plotted by friction against payoff: doing, next, noise.

    Published
    Sep 7, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Dot-and-range chart of six model configurations collapsing into two bands — schema-only around 45–50%, schema plus one written page around 68% — with a 17-to-23-point gap between them.

    The Page Was Worth Twenty Points

    AI & agents

    One written page was worth 17 to 23 points of accuracy; the model, nothing.

    Published
    Aug 27, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • The safe-publish lineage: private tasks and contacts tables feeding two scorecard models, gated by 27 dbt tests before the site, above the SQL of the leak test itself.

    The Leak Gate

    AI & agents

    The dbt layer that publishes my task log’s totals and none of its titles.

    Published
    Jul 24, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • A grid of five colour groups — purple, blue, yellow, red, green — each resting on a different day of a staggered five-day cycle, so no column is ever all at rest.

    The Week That Had No Weekend

    History

    The Soviet week with no weekend: five colour groups and no shared day off.

    Published
    Jul 8, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Four downward-sloping lines showing SSRI dispensing falling as more Swedish workers vacation, working-age and retirees alike.

    When Sweden Vacations Together

    Wellbeing

    The more Swedes vacationed at once, the fewer antidepressants went out.

    Published
    Jul 8, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • Agent and human side by side over 90 days: $1.42 against $23.78 per instance, 14 against 32 minutes, 88.7% against 83.3% outcome rate, with the gaps called out beneath.

    The Agent-vs-Human Scorecard

    AI & agents

    Agent versus human on my own tasks: outcomes, dollars and minutes, 90 days.

    Published
    Jul 8, 2026
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    Origin
    Native
  • The Happiness Reports — the paradox scatter with the World Cup Round of 16 nations highlighted

    The Happiness Reports

    Wellbeing

    Why happy countries carry high suicide rates, and a fall nobody noticed.

    Published
    Jun 21, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • Stacked area chart of global nuclear warheads 1945–2026, peaking at 64,452 in 1986 then falling, with the US and Russia dominating.

    Nuclear Weapon Inventory

    History

    Every warhead since 1945: a 64,452 peak in 1986 and the 85% fall since.

    Published
    Jun 27, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • Net productivity and the typical worker’s pay as cumulative change since 1948, rising together until a dashed 1973 line, then productivity climbing past +300% while pay flattens below +150%.

    Productivity Has Left Wages in the Dust

    Economics

    Productivity up 298% since 1948, pay up 143%; the lines split around 1973.

    Published
    Jun 28, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • CEO-to-worker pay ratio climbing from 21:1 in 1965 to a 408:1 peak, an orange area chart tracking the S&P 500 line.

    How Far CEO Pay Pulled Away

    Economics

    21 times a typical worker in 1965, 408 in 2021, swinging with the market.

    Published
    Jun 28, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • A streamgraph of fifteen artists’ share of listening from 2020 to 2023, each ridge a colour, with deadmau5 in orange holding the centre all four years.

    Topology of Music

    Personal data

    Every song since 2019 as a mountain range of loyalty to fifteen artists.

    Published
    Jun 23, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • Mormon Pioneer Trek to the Salt Lake Valley — dashboard with an age-distribution histogram.

    Mormon Pioneer Trek to the Salt Lake Valley

    Faith

    56,000 Saints, 1,300 miles, cholera, and a U-shaped mortality curve by age.

    Published
    Jun 23, 2026
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    Origin
    Tableau
  • Four headline counts, a stacked bar splitting 48 students into 50% who saw no conflict, 10% who hedged and 40% who named it, above bars of the seven reconciling moves.

    Faith and Human Evolution: Mental Gymnastics

    Faith

    Forty-eight religious students holding Adam & Eve and apes at once.

    Published
    Jun 23, 2026
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    Origin
    Native

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