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Sam Pottinger
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Data scientist / visualization designer at UC Berkeley Center for Data Science and Environment. Intersection of ML, UX, SWE, game design, and natural science. Views my own. Gleap.org. Teaching https://interactivedatascience.courses @ UC Berkeley. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈
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Getting examples ready to teach my upcoming interactive data science / data visualization course (interactivedatascience.courses). Can’t wait to see you soon Berkeley! #creativeCoding
January 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Moody Tuesday… #pixelart
Dark clouds gather over mountains. In the foreground some tulips and a windmill.
November 6, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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Happy Monday … sending some calm as you start your week. #pixelart
Picture of a beach with soft waves. A bird and some dolphins are visible in the distance.
November 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Happy Sunday #pixelart
Fog covered mountain range with tree and well in the foreground.
November 3, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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In the middle of papers so there hasn’t been any new viz for a while but here’s my dog at the beach. #pixelart #art
Little white dog at a beach with hills and whales in distance. Calm waves washing up on shore.
October 29, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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It works on mobile!
September 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Post a dog!
White dog looking at a biscuit on a counter while it rains in the background.
March 24, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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#pixelart for when you have ceramics that need to go places
White plane with blue stripes. A pilot sits in front with pots in the back. A wind sock is seen in the background in front of a hill.
February 8, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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🪄
Witch reading a book in moonlight with a black cat in the background.
January 26, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Pixel art for the recent rain in SF …
Dog looking at a large bone in a glass container on top of a counter. In the background there is a tree sitting in the rain.
December 23, 2023 at 11:35 PM
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Iterate…
Witch reading a book in the moonlight on a table with coffee. A black cat lies nearby.
December 1, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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Good night blue sky. Hope I got the colors ok… I’m color blind so try my best. I didn’t check too many of these afterwards.
Witch reading a book late at night with a black cat in the background.
December 1, 2023 at 6:18 AM
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High five! More pixel art side quest.
A man with brown skin kneeling to touch his hand to a small white dog’s paw. The dog stands on their hind legs. The two are in a mountainous area with the sky visible in the background.
November 29, 2023 at 5:58 AM
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Wish we had animated gifs
Frame from a gif of a white dog running
November 27, 2023 at 4:54 AM
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A little pixel art side quest
Two men (one brown, one white) and a white dog in a park in front of Sutro Tower looking at a crow in a tree.
November 26, 2023 at 9:13 PM
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Goodnight creative coding blues sky. 🌗 Open source at gleap.org/plant/eclipse
A near black celestial body shining on another larger dark gray body. Both have off white particles emerging from their centers. The dark gray body has dark grey specs in its orbit while the smaller near black body has white specs in its orbit.
November 16, 2023 at 5:27 AM
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Doodling and putting off work. Open source at gleap.org/plant/balance. Dear creative coding bluesky, I hope you are having a chill evening / morning to start the weekend.
Two abstract figures that look spirit-like reaching towards each other inside circles made up of lines and smaller circles.
November 11, 2023 at 2:58 AM
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Good night creative coding bluesky. Hopefully Monday brings good things. Open source at gleap.org/plant/wheat
Wheat in a halo made up of lines.
October 23, 2023 at 4:44 AM
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Good afternoon happy Sunday. Some doodling in code while listening to Japanese Breakfast. The randomness produces kinda different variations on the vibe each time. Open source at gleap.org/plant/spotted.
Plant with wave like stems emanating from a point, reaching up from a green dotted ground to a blue dotted sky which may appear as to be if underwater.
September 24, 2023 at 8:38 PM
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A little sketch listening to Gregory Alan Isakov. Been a while since I made a plant in plant lang. Anyway, open source at gleap.org/plant/bouquet. Good night creative coding bluesky.
Blank and white picture of plant that looks like it is made up of small brush strokes. Vaguely looks like a bouquet.
September 11, 2023 at 4:45 AM
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Good night creative coding blue sky! Doodling at gleap.org/plant/darksky. More ominous than I anticipated.
Mountain shooting up into dark clouds with a blue line at the top.
September 7, 2023 at 3:58 AM
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Playing around with the Monty Hall Problem with curious family members on a holiday. In case you want to join in on the fun, I made a small open source simulator at codepen.io/sampottinger.... Impress your friends and loved ones.
Screenshot of a simulation of the Monty Hall problem showing those who change doors do better.
September 4, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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Repost a picture of the first game you remember playing…

Oh man running through batteries on the gameboy. (Thanks mobygames for screenshot.)
Screenshot of professor oak in Pokémon 1 saying it is unsafe Pokémon live in tall grass
September 4, 2023 at 1:48 AM
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Good night creative coding bluesky. Open source at gleap.org/plant/telesc....
Telescope with an arc-like piece towards the top looking at a star where the image is made up of small dots.
September 2, 2023 at 11:51 PM
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Good morning creative coding bluesky! Open source at gleap.org/plant/sail.
A sailboat-like figure inside a circle made of dots inside a circle made of plant-like structures.
September 2, 2023 at 6:24 PM