Elijah Meeks
@elijahmeeks.bsky.social
Principal Engineer at Confluent. Ex-Noteable, Apple, Netflix, Stanford. I write sometimes and talk too much.
Can someone please explain to me what the effect size of being an incumbent across those categories means? What is the range of, say, the top orange bar expressing? Or, better yet, point me at the dataset?
October 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Can someone please explain to me what the effect size of being an incumbent across those categories means? What is the range of, say, the top orange bar expressing? Or, better yet, point me at the dataset?
I used #matterjs to do a bit of data visualization using physical metaphors and I loved it. We should all do more #datavisualization with physics engines, especially for systems like this.
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I used #matterjs to do a bit of data visualization using physical metaphors and I loved it. We should all do more #datavisualization with physics engines, especially for systems like this.
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
Order the special.
September 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Order the special.
The older I get the more I think @danz68.bsky.social might have been right about everything.
June 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The older I get the more I think @danz68.bsky.social might have been right about everything.
Sankey diagrams are getting perilously close to being renamed online relationship success diagrams.
May 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sankey diagrams are getting perilously close to being renamed online relationship success diagrams.
Reminder that the pope is catholic and west point is part of the military-industrial complex. Of course a military academy for producing military leaders of an imperial military is supposed to indoctrinate what do you think indoctrination is? What do words even mean any more?
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reminder that the pope is catholic and west point is part of the military-industrial complex. Of course a military academy for producing military leaders of an imperial military is supposed to indoctrinate what do you think indoctrination is? What do words even mean any more?
I'm definitely not the first person to do it. Here's a version for the Mississippi.
April 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm definitely not the first person to do it. Here's a version for the Mississippi.
For #EarthDay I made a subway map version of the San Lorenzo River watershed. The San Lorenzo River is my local river here in Santa Cruz and I've always felt a greater connection to nature and the Earth when I've created abstract representations of its systems.
April 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
For #EarthDay I made a subway map version of the San Lorenzo River watershed. The San Lorenzo River is my local river here in Santa Cruz and I've always felt a greater connection to nature and the Earth when I've created abstract representations of its systems.
I love that we accept charts like the one on the left at face value when the one on the right exist.
April 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I love that we accept charts like the one on the left at face value when the one on the right exist.
Looks like I'm going to get to revisit design principles for animated #dataviz. Any good resources out there that folks rely on for animation in data visualization?
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April 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Looks like I'm going to get to revisit design principles for animated #dataviz. Any good resources out there that folks rely on for animation in data visualization?
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
As AI gums up your entire life with anime knockoff versions of every meaningful image you ever saw remember that it's still just as shitty at #dataviz.
March 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
As AI gums up your entire life with anime knockoff versions of every meaningful image you ever saw remember that it's still just as shitty at #dataviz.
“The carousel of progress has actually been dismantled.” @infowetrust.com at his launch of the remastered edition of Info We Trust.
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“The carousel of progress has actually been dismantled.” @infowetrust.com at his launch of the remastered edition of Info We Trust.
That's it folks, the AI will be unstoppable now.
March 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
That's it folks, the AI will be unstoppable now.
Check out this market inefficiency though.
March 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Check out this market inefficiency though.
US counties are so dumb...
March 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
US counties are so dumb...
Remember to be careful when you use a multiaxis chart that the axes are not so completely out of alignment that you unintentionally tell a story with the data in a way that draws lessons from events that only happen 3 or fewer times a decade.
March 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Remember to be careful when you use a multiaxis chart that the axes are not so completely out of alignment that you unintentionally tell a story with the data in a way that draws lessons from events that only happen 3 or fewer times a decade.
ChatGPT knows how to read connected scatterplots. That's more than I can say for most of you...
February 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
ChatGPT knows how to read connected scatterplots. That's more than I can say for most of you...
Maybe we can heal the rift in our country via our shared hatred of Nate Silver. Cool chart though (that someone else made).
February 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Maybe we can heal the rift in our country via our shared hatred of Nate Silver. Cool chart though (that someone else made).
What do you think caused the decline of the use of the phrase “graphic method” before the rise of “data visualization” @infowetrust.com? Maybe the failure of McNamara’s approach in Vietnam?
January 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
What do you think caused the decline of the use of the phrase “graphic method” before the rise of “data visualization” @infowetrust.com? Maybe the failure of McNamara’s approach in Vietnam?
Has anyone else heard of the rule "If it doesn't have gaps between the bars it's a histogram, if it has gaps it's a bar chart" and if you have do you know where this wrong wrong wrong rule comes from?
January 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Has anyone else heard of the rule "If it doesn't have gaps between the bars it's a histogram, if it has gaps it's a bar chart" and if you have do you know where this wrong wrong wrong rule comes from?
Just a reminder that for a while the wikipedia article about the most expensive fire in the history of the United States was mostly about Steve Gutenberg.
January 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Just a reminder that for a while the wikipedia article about the most expensive fire in the history of the United States was mostly about Steve Gutenberg.
Oh yeah... Poirot... that's who I think of every time I see your profile picture.
January 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Oh yeah... Poirot... that's who I think of every time I see your profile picture.
I completely expected this heel turn from you and support your candidacy for Viceroy of Belgium.
January 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I completely expected this heel turn from you and support your candidacy for Viceroy of Belgium.
Join me on the dark path of abusing quadtrees. Sorry, I guess I don't have a higher res of this anymore but circlepack nesting of nearby points using quadtree nesting.
January 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Join me on the dark path of abusing quadtrees. Sorry, I guess I don't have a higher res of this anymore but circlepack nesting of nearby points using quadtree nesting.
'AI is stealing jobs from real artists!'
"Real" artists:
"Real" artists:
January 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
'AI is stealing jobs from real artists!'
"Real" artists:
"Real" artists: