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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 02/10/2026

Data from a government source? Time for the standard tool:

Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 15/09/2026

I need everyone in marketing and branding to understand that no one gives a shit about their corporate updates. This is the actual title of an email I got today.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 03/09/2026

I defined that criteria as having a unique ID and being searchable by author/project name rather than all content and metadata being searchable. The scenario I set up was: if an author registered multiple possible plans and deleted all but one, would there be some evidence of the deletion?

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 03/09/2026

This comparison may help differentiate various platforms. osf.io/preprints/me...

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 31/08/2026

"As of this writing, that process [of retraction] is ongoing." I don't understand what takes time in a retraction. Write a couple sentences saying the authors requested a retraction, update the DOI metadata, add a banner to the PDF, and what else???

Finally, it should be noted that when we shared these posts with Ariely and Wertenbroch a few weeks ago, they reached out to Psychological Science to request that the article be retracted. As of this writing, that process is ongoing.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 12/08/2026

Unbiased but noisy! Great post by @gelliottmorris.com. While outcomes are necessarily dichotomous, predictions and the reliability of polling are often reported that way too. Polling can be both noisy and still informative.

I modified the noisy correlation graph to show red dots when the vote direction flips relative to the prediction.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 01/08/2026

Is this a praying mantis on my windshield? Or giant praying mantis on the road?

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 23/06/2026

Yeah, just driving across just the north island is more than a 1 day trip. Great scenery!

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 06/06/2026

Even though it's not VSS, I was nearby and had to drop by Ted Peter's.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 14/03/2026

Years of vision science has trained me for this 😅 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 10/03/2026

Carbonara with real guanciale

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 31/12/2024

Everything is more advanced and yet shittier.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 23/12/2024

Today is Festivus. I look forward to your feats of strength.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 16/12/2024

I was hesitant to watch the series version of "What We Do in the Shadows" because I loved the movie so much. But it's excellent! The Collin Robinson character is genius. He's an energy vampire who feeds off of people's boredom and frustration. Here he is feasting at a city council meeting:

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 24/11/2024

It's called a "Navon task" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 23/11/2024

Like most things in vision: salience ~ size * luminance contrast (The image is also manipulating font-weight (bold) and character spacing, which contribute to size and contrast in less clear ways.) When size and contrast aren't correlated, it gets interesting...

A variant of the above that pits size and position against luminance contrast

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 13/11/2024

Great editorial! Minor correction though: "our introduced change stops short of making data and code sharing mandatory in line with the TOP Level 3 standards" The current policy stops short of TOP Level *2* standards.

Table of top standards showing that level 2 has mandatory transparency.

From summary table at https://www.cos.io/initiatives/top-guidelines

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 09/11/2024

Reposting the response from James Scott-Brown source: Cleveland’s 1985 “The Elements of Graphing Data”

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 05/11/2024

One of the challenges to trusting polls is that there are more scam messages than actual pollster messages. cc @awmercer.bsky.social

We are conducting what has been historically the most accurate Presidential Poll. We need your response ASAP
gopway1.com/...

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 03/11/2024

Final donation in hopes that Harris+Walz can pour money into voter turnout.

$100 donation to the Harris-Walz and dems campaign

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 02/11/2024

This is the most French thing ever. Paris is banning car traffic from a large region of the city... but look at all the exceptions! So basically, it's the same as before but now with a fuckton of bureaucracy and vague arbitrary enforcement. source: www.thelocal.fr/20241031/par...

People who live or work in the ZTL are exempt but so are people with a disability, anyone who is making a delivery, people visiting shops, art galleries, theatres, cinemas, restaurants or other leisure venues, plus anyone in the zone for a medical appointment or to visit friends.

Buses, taxis and VTCs (such as Uber) are exempt as well as breakdown recovery vehicles, while emergency vehicles are also exempt.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 28/10/2024

If you see this, post a picture taken in the mountains. From Dalvíkurbyggð

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 27/10/2024

This one has less noise in the original like yours. Very compelling demo!

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 27/10/2024

Nice! I wanted to see it where x and y were on the same scale. Code: gist.github.com/steveharoz/3... (and looking forward to the book!)

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 23/10/2024

More often than not, the last answer is more accurate

How might data visualization help you communicate complex ideas?

Data visualization simplifies complex information so that it is more accessible to a wider audience.

Data visualization forces the audience to learn how to understand data.

Data visualization doesn't help communicate ideas. People should be able to understand raw numbers.

Graphs and charts are pretty. It's as simple as that.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 21/10/2024

clearsky.app/hspter.bsky....

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 21/10/2024

Since a new version of #Factorio is coming out soon, here was my biggest megabase. Specs: 2400 science/minute 450k green chips/minute 102 Trains 199 Train Stations full view - drive.google.com/file/d/1T92C...

central view of a factorio base with a central bus

dozens of research labs fed by bots, all active simultaneously

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 19/10/2024

The Brave Little Toaster (1987) This shit was fucking dark.

Scary clown with a fork and hose and flames behind him

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 19/10/2024

Neverending Story (1984) Fuck this entire scene.

A boy pulling on his horses reigns desperately trying to get the horse to not give in to sadness and sink into the swamp

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 19/10/2024

The Witches (1990) Hey kids, enjoy some body horror!

Anjelica Huston peeling off her face and hair to reveal an inhuman form underneath.

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 18/10/2024

Drinking espresso martinis and talking about model collapse. How's your Friday going?

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Steve Haroz @steveharoz.com · 06/10/2024

What are the "brown M&Ms" of bad science? What are some signs that aren't inherently problematic, but they're associated with carelessness, sloppiness, or poor reasoning and indicate that more careful scrutiny may be warranted? www.npr.org/sections/the...