One of my goals while at Recurse Center has been to improve my ability to manipulate and visualize data sets. To that end, I’ve been toying around with the Social Security Administration’s baby name dataset, which records the number of babies born with each given name every year, both federally and at the state level. […]
about me
Parker Higgins is an artist and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. He writes about computers, creativity, and the law, and works as the Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. more ยป
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recent posts
- New Rossword puzzle 7 March, 2021
- 1923 zine and website launch 23 March, 2019
- Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal 3 March, 2019
- Shutting down @LinkArchiver, the Twitter link backup bot 26 August, 2018
- Twitter should allow users to “hide” old tweets: my correct opinion 5 August, 2018
top posts
- Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode
- "We will need writers who can remember freedom": Ursula K Le Guin at the National Book Awards
- What did Jay Z and Paul McCartney think of the Grey Album?
- A Twitter list of somebody else's timeline
- Introducing: cursewords, a crossword puzzle solving interface for the terminal
