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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

OK, so I just got really obsessed with a very arcane question. There are 'land' and 'water' hemispheres that maximize the amount of each (below). But can you divide the earth into two hemispheres that are each 29% land, 71% water, just like the earth as a whole? The LLMs said no… but I persisted.

The land and waterhemispheres. Equal-area projection. Map from wikipedia.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Find us today at the MIT @medialab.bsky.social — and at Northeastern tomorrow and Sunday — during #infoplus2025 with the latest books on data visualization and design. Looking forward to presentations by authors @kanarinka.bsky.social, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @dietoff.bsky.social, and others!

The MIT Press table at the MIT Media Lab. Various books are on display including Data Action, Atlas of Macroscopes, and Data Feminism.

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Sharing this recent interview with @dietoff.bsky.social, E76 | "The Shape of Synthetic Data" Pondering AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...

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E76 | The Shape of Synthetic Data with Dietmar Offenhuber | Pondering AI

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

An absolutely fascinating visualization of astronomical objects in scientific publications by date of publication. @dietoff.bsky.social #VK25

A man standing on a stage presenting a data visualization

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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

@dietoff.bsky.social referring to the difference between “data” (things given) and “capta” (things taken) from Johanna Drucker. A third perspective could be “acta” (things done). #VK25

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Northeastern University School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs @nu-policyschool.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

At the 2025 Architectural Biennale in Venice, @dietoff.bsky.social and his @northeasternu.bsky.social team have created a project, transforms Venice into a physical reservoir computer, using tidal waters to process information and visualize slow environmental changes. @nu-policyschool.bsky.social

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Dietmar Offenhuber @dietoff.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Experiments in Time Distance Map - gorgeous new collection of Kohei Sugiura’s time space maps going back to the 1960s. Deeply influenced me 20 years ago, but then I knew them only in BW- the color schemes are amazing. The appendix explains the geometry and math.

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