2026-04-02 21:30:45
For those who want to share small datasets in a more straightforward way, Ziptable by Evan Peck makes quick work of the task with a single link.
Ziptable lets you share a small CSV or JSON dataset by sending a single link. The person you send it to opens the link and immediately sees the data in their browser, ready to search, inspect, and download again. No attachments, no cloud storage workflow, and no account required.
Load a dataset. Ziptable compresses and encodes the data. You get a link without the data hitting up a server.
Tags: Evan Peck, small data, URL
2026-04-02 20:06:07
Hi everyone. This is issue No. 382 of the Process, where we build towards charts beyond defaults. I’m Nathan Yau. This week is about small things adding up to big things.
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2026-04-02 01:06:12
For the New York Times, Ruth Igielnik and Katherine Chui charted presidential approval ratings against gas prices in the United States. The two metrics used to correlate strongly, but it’s grown more noisy over the past decade. That might change back:
Polarization, he said, plays a large role in that change.
“Presidents have fairly unified support from their own party, and unified opposition from the other party, which means they have a higher floor and a lower ceiling,” he said, referring to approval ratings.
Still, the current gas spike could be different. The quick pace with which prices have jumped may be enough to upend that trend.
Gas prices in the U.S. have increased to over $4 per gallon. Here in California, some gas stations are charging over $7 per gallon. Maybe we’ll find out if there’s a threshold for gas prices that lowers the approval floor.
Tags: approval, economy, gas, New York Times, prices
2026-04-02 00:32:28
Artemis II launches today, scheduled for 6:24 pm EDT. Die Zeit mapped the journey to the moon and back (paywalled). Illustrated to scale and focused on the spacecraft while scrolling, it feels like the opening to space documentary. It just needs a soundtrack and an even-keeled astronaut to narrate the wonders of the universe.
Tags: Artemis II, moon, scale, space, Zeit
2026-04-01 19:20:47
Researchers at Stanford University, epidemiologists Mathew Kiang and Nathan Lo, estimated the number of people who would die or be disabled if vaccines were no longer available in the United States. They did this for four diseases: polio, measles, rubella, and diphtheria. ProPublica illustrated the scale of these estimates, if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got his way.
Not ideal.
Tags: modeling, ProPublica, scale, vaccination
2026-03-31 18:58:23
For Bloomberg, Loren Grush, Sana Pashankar, and Stephanie Davidson describe the Artemis II plan for the evening of April 1.
The mission is a critical milestone in NASA’s ambitious Artemis campaign, aimed at landing humans on the moon once again. In Greek mythology, the goddess Artemis is the twin of Apollo – a nod to the predecessor program that put US astronauts on the lunar surface. This time, however, NASA hopes to establish a base there, where humans can live and work.
The rocket was illustrated with Blender and flight paths are shown with Three.js. I always appreciate a bit of 3-D flourish in space-related illustrations.
