The long reads
Deep studies, each tracing how one thing changes over time — built from the raw files, not a vendor feed.
Seven decades · 1950–2020in prep
Cohort Tracing
Synthetic birth cohorts pushed through every U.S. decennial census at county level — which
places import their twenty-somethings and which lose them, decade after decade, with an interactive flow explorer.
7 censuses · 3,208 constant-territory counties · survival-ratio method →
Month by month · since 1913in prep
CPI Lab
Ten pipelines dissecting U.S. consumer inflation below the headline — frequency weighting,
sticky vs flexible persistence, revision vintages, tariff exposure, and a lead-lag network of item prices.
10 pipelines · daily cron · BLS & BEA primary files →
Every big city · 1967–2024in prep
Safety Spend
How much of a city’s budget goes to police and fire, for every U.S. city above 100,000
people — parsed from the Census Bureau’s individual unit files and checked line by line against five
independent sources.
332 cities · 58 years · 5 cross-validation sources →
Pulse
Six sibling dashboards, each reading one live signal on its own clock. All up now.
GridPulse
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The electric grid: demand, prices, reserves, generation mix, carbon, and grid emergencies.
EconPulse
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The economy: rates, prices, labor, activity nowcasts, markets, and prediction markets.
HealthPulse
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Public health: wastewater surveillance, respiratory illness, outbreaks, and health alerts.
SkyPulse
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Space weather: the Sun, solar wind, geomagnetic storms, aurora, satellites, and asteroid passes.
NetPulse
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The internet: traffic, outages, attacks, routing, protocol adoption, and the software ecosystem.
ComputePulse
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AI & compute: model releases, research volume, benchmarks, GPU prices, throughput, and buildout.