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Interactive dashboards I build to explore public data — each one a single self-contained HTML file, dense by design, dark by default, built in the open. Feedback on the style or the substance is very welcome.
Driving School — Watch a Network Actually Learn
Does a bigger brain drive better? Train a simple neural network, then build one with five hidden layers and put both cars on the same road. Watch their connections change with practice, save your drivers, and compare what they actually learned. A guided walkthrough gets you from your first car to the race.
Neuron Chain — How One Signal Becomes a Thought
Smell vanilla and your brain reaches for a memory — but which one? Watch a real signal spread cell by cell: it only fires when enough inputs arrive close enough together, so the same smell can end at a smile, at homesickness, or at nothing at all. Every membrane voltage on screen is the real number.
Particle Life — Nine Rules, No Blueprint
Nine kinds of dot, one rule each: move toward that colour, or away from it. No plan, no goal, nothing that knows what a cell is — and within seconds you get membranes, hunting packs and things that look alive. Eighty-one numbers you can edit while it runs.
The Grid vs the Datacenter
Data centres used 4.7% of America's electricity in 2024 and are headed for about 11.8% by 2030 — but a third of ALL new US demand. That, plus every hour of Lower-48 power: what generated it, and what the duck curve looks like now.
Where the Internet Actually Is
Every colocation facility on earth that publishes its coordinates, on a spinnable globe, sized by how many networks meet inside. A hundred buildings carry a third of all interconnection — and the busiest one is not where you think.
What the World Looked Up — Wikipedia attention, day by day
Every day's most-read Wikipedia articles, four months of them, as one ribbon of collective attention. Scrub the timeline, hunt the spikes, and watch how fast the world forgets.
Dark O'Clock — What Permanent DST Does to Your Evenings
Every sunrise and sunset across 2027 in twelve US cities, under today's clock rules versus permanent DST versus permanent standard time. Set the hour you call dark and see how many evenings each policy actually costs you.
Every member of the 119th Congress, sortable
Every senator and representative by state — tenure, district, seniority, leadership and contact detail. Sort any column, filter nine ways, 13 chart views.
Which soccer league is actually the best?
Weight six factors yourself and watch the rankings re-sort. Plus a neutral Messi-vs-Ronaldo verdict builder and a spinnable globe of every football confederation on earth.
U.S. Aircraft Armament — B-2 Spirit
Open-source loadout reference for the B-2 Spirit: every munition by weight, category, guidance type and year introduced, sortable and filterable.
aˣ vs xᵃ — Intersection Explorer
Where do y = aˣ and y = xᵃ meet in the first quadrant? Slide the base a and watch the intersections move, with the ln(x)/x derivation worked alongside.
Collatz Conjecture (3n+1)
Even numbers halve, odd numbers triple-plus-one. Trace a single trajectory or the whole tree — parity, coordinates and stopping times. Verified to about 2⁶⁸, still unproven.
Ecosystem — Agent World (Rabbits + Trees)
An agent-based world of rabbits and trees. Tune the biology — hunger, birth rate, speed, lifespan — reseed, and watch the population boom or collapse.
Khinchin's Constant
For almost every real number, the geometric mean of its continued-fraction coefficients converges to the same value, K₀ ≈ 2.685. Test it on famous constants and random reals.
O(n) Playground
Toggle complexity classes and slide n to watch the curves diverge. Log axes, crossover points, and a probe that reads off exact operation counts at any input size.
Poisson — Network Reliability Calculator
Give a link a failure rate and an SLA, then read off P(0 events), P(over SLA) and the whole distribution. Roll a single year or sample a thousand of them.
Prime Blocks — Gravity Visualizer
Every number as a pile of blocks. Composites snap into rectangles built from their factors; primes never do. Walks through factorisation, gaps and Ω/ω in 2D or 3D.
Riemann Zeta Explorer
Evaluate ζ(s) anywhere in the complex plane via the Dirichlet eta series, term by term. Presets jump to the first nontrivial zeros, ζ(2) = π²/6 and ζ(−1).
Riemann Zeta — Critical Line Sweep
Sweep t along ζ(½ + it) and watch the spiral pass through the origin at every zero. Jump straight to t ≈ 14.13, 21.02, 25.01 and onward.
Random Walk Explorer — Pólya's Recurrence Theorem
Pólya's theorem made visible: a walker returns home with certainty in 1D and 2D, but only about a third of the time in 3D. All three dimensions run side by side.
Recamán's Sequence
Jump back if you can, forward if you can't. OEIS A005132 drawn as arcs, coloured by direction, index, arc parity or jump distance.
Plane-Themed Mini Golf — Design Reference
A curated, high-resolution photo set of aviation-themed putt-putt courses, searchable and filterable — gathered as visual inspiration for a course design.
Isometric Take-Off Mini Golf Course Concepts
Isometric concept renderings for a plane-themed mini golf course.
3D Take-Off Hole Studio
An interactive 3D studio for laying out a take-off-themed mini golf hole.
Coherent Optics — How a Wave Becomes Capacity
Coherent DWDM from first principles: the three enemies of single-mode fiber, the four independent dimensions of a lightwave, and why every extra bit per symbol costs 3 dB of reach. Every number is computed live from the physics, not looked up in a table.
Not built yet
This is a placeholder so the navigation model can be reviewed. Nothing behind it yet — the dashboards under Dashboards are the real ones.