Wikipedia’s great experiment: Finding a definition of “happiness” we can all agree on ↗
Philosophical data analysis for Quartz
I created a tool to quickly compare changes to a Wikipedia page, in this case the one on "Happiness," to see how crowdsourcing deals with humanity's great questions.
What Steve Bannon really wants ↗
Political writing for Quartz
Shortly after Trump's inauguration, Steve Bannon was the wild card in the Trump administration. Gwynn Guilford and I uncovered his bizarre and epic political philosophy.
The great American word mapper ↗
Data journalism, graphics for Quartz
Interactive web app that allows users to search for any of the top 100,000 words used on Twitter (as of 2016), and see where they are used in the continental US. This project is used by many academics and instructors in linguistics.
A eulogy for What.cd, the greatest music collection in the history of the world—until it vanished ↗
Essay for Quartz
The tragedy of removing the internet's greatest music-piracy website.
The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font ↗
Reportage for Quartz
Reporting from Taiwan on an incredible design challenge.
This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of ↗
Published writing for Quartz
The genius of the _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_.
See where ‘Go Set a Watchman’ overlaps with ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ word-for-word ↗
Published data journalism for Quartz
When Harper Lee's "new" novel came out, Keith Collins and I wanted to know just how new it was.
Happy lunar new year! But is it the year of the sheep or something else? ↗
Published writing for Quartz
An etymological dive into the Lunar New Year.
Hacked emails reveal China’s elaborate and absurd internet propaganda machine ↗
Published data journalism for Quartz
I spoke to a Chinese hacker who had obtained thousands of emails from a Chinese propaganda department, translated them, and wrote software to analyze them. Then I wrote this piece about what I found.
What fonts tell us about the global economics of the internet ↗
Published writing for Quartz
Design-as-development.
Hussain's Journey ↗
Interactive web story for The Global Mail
A collaborative, multimedia presentation of one refugee's journey from Afghanistan to Australia. I was reposnsible for all the mapping stuff.