Weekly Cool Stuff #2: Jan 8–14

Weekly Cool Stuff is a collection of things I found in various rabbit holes around the internet, posted every Monday. Most of the content I consume is journalism, web development, design or gaming-related. Enjoy!

My Twitter likes this week have been meme-heavy — this one especially made me giggle. I also had fun with #BlackHogwarts.

5 cool things.

• #dataviz. The 2017 Open Vis Conf’s Talks & Transcripts page is super cool. It displays all of their talks as a sortable, highlightable web.
• #design. Clay Bavor, a VR/AR team lead at Google, wrote a post about how he built a digital skylight in his closet.
• #journalism & #dataviz. The 2017 Pudding Awards has a lot of amazing data viz that I recognized. But I hadn’t seen this fun story about bird egg shapes by Sarah Crespi and Jia You.
• #code. Emil Wallner on FloydHub taught a neural network how to code a basic website based on a picture of a design mockup — and then wrote a blog post about it.
• #design. Barron Webster, an interaction designer for Google Creative Lab, created a list of all companies and studios in NYC that pay their design/creative interns above living wage.

from my bookmarks.

ProPublica’s “How Much is a Limb Worth?” from 2015 is still a great visualization and take on workers’ comp.

thx for reading.

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