Evan Peck

@peck.phd

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🦬🏔️ @cuboulder.info science prof Vis / HCI - Designing data for the public. 📊❤️ PI: https://infovisions.github.io/ Previously: Bucknell CS prof, Tufts CS PhD 🔗 https://peck.phd/

A calendar block labeled "yup"
A screenshot of a Reddit thread from the subreddit r/cscareerquestions titled "Meta planning sweeping layoffs, 20% of company." ​The thread features a discussion about developer burnout and AI. One user, termd, comments that productivity gains attributed to AI are actually the result of developers working longer hours to avoid being fired. Another user, Cptcongcong, who claims to work at Meta, agrees, stating they worked from 8 am to 1 am the previous week. Other users chime in, sharing similar experiences at their own companies, with one concluding, "Sad times to be a software engineer." At the bottom of the screen, there is a promoted advertisement from OpenAI for Codex.
A video of ZipTable in-action. Shows dragging a geojson file onto the website. Then I make a link based on the data and open it in a new tab, where the geo data loads correctly. A new button labeled "View on geojson.io". I click it, and the geojson loads on that website, showing the world locations of the data in the file.
A gif showing interaction with a visualization that highlights a visual tie between each hovered person & Epstein. There are 9 people in total. There is no more data represented than that.
Bar graphs of how many gold, silver, and bronze medals that Norway, Italy, and USA have. Each country has its own range, so the bar for USA's 8 silver medals is just as high as Norway's 12 gold medals
Snow pack map of colorado. showing regional "percent of average". Colors range from light blue to dark blue, while percentages are in the 40s and 60s (low snowpack!)
Screenshot of AI search results: "Miami loses CFP title game to Indiana; Toney held to 13 yards Miami fell to undefeated Indiana 10-7 in the national championship, with Toney limited to just five touches and 13 yards in the low-scoring affair."
Image of a bubble map on the Economist of "How remote work is changing American cities". Bubbles on cities have a color map that goes from light-red to dark-red to represent % of workforce working remotely in 2024... except for the highest category of color changes to black
Tweet from Claude: "Opus 4.5 is available today on our API and on all three major could platforms" Shows a bar graph of software engineering accuracy with a truncated axis, which exaggerates their gains
3 logos - left - Buffalo Bills logo, center: Bucknell Bison logo, right: CU Buffalo logo. All are Buffalo
Screen-shot of wirecutter page with a big titel that says "The Best Bar Carts"
Line graph titled: The world has become surprisingly less grumpy. But the graph shows "People who report experiencing emotion yesterday" and shows increases in worry, sadness, pain, anger, and decreases in rested, laughter, enjoyment
Graph with title: Older people are addicted to their digital gadgets. But the graph itself only has data about device ownership %
a horrible stacked bar graph which ran out of horizontal room and then started wrapping onto itself
a pie chart with 50+ slices
Picture of the legend of the previous chart. It is nearly 2 pages of a pdf, with 180+ colors
Stacked bar graph showing historical expenditures by object - 4 stacked bars from 2023 to 2026
It looks like a multiplication table (with rows and columns 1 through 10), but there are many many errors. For example, the columns go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10. The final 10 only has single emojis as answers. Another example is that there are many cells which don't align with the row/column (33 x 45 or 100 x 80). Each cell also tends to have 1-4 emoji, regardless of the multiplication.
Photo from the coin toss at the 1969 Liberty Bowl. Bill Collins, left, can be seen standing alone in front of an entire row of white Alabama football players
Left, screen shot of google search results for "well-being vs. wellbeing". Right, screen shot of google search results for "wellbeing vs. well-being" - reversing the hyphenation. When hyphenated "well-being" was first in the query, it said that was the "traditional and preferred spelling in North American English". When non-hyphenated "wellbeing" was first, it said "this was the more common and preferred spelling in many parts of the world, including the United States, Canada, and Australia"
screenshot from academic paper vis showing sinking areas of Houston. Seems to suggest most of Houston is sinking, but shows more areas rising than WPost vis (next image)
line graph called "Valuation of town and city property owned by Georgia Negroes". While the line increases, it is annotated with things like "Ku-Kluxism, Lynching, and Political Unrest"
Map showing the probability of 0.1" of snow across Colorado. 0% is white, 100% is dark blue. Most of the map is colored in white-ish colors.
Video that shows the functionality of the emojicon website: - User enters "21☀️ 16☁️ 13☔️" which makes a grid of those respective emojis - Clicking a toggle for ⚖️ 100-emojis makes the numbers normalized to 100 - Clicking a toggle for "Bar-Mode" rearranges them in a bar-graph like layout - Clicking a dice button randomizes the order of the emoji in the grid - Clicking copy, allows you to copy-paste a text representation
Photo of a mug with a label on it reading "daddy mug"
Bar graph with truncated y-axis with celebrity heights. The truncation makes celebs like Taylor Swift look like giants compared to Ariana Grande
Github Commit: "Shriram found a type in the 1 sentence I wrote 🤦"
Portrait picture of gonzo from the Muppet Christmas Carol
A screenshot with two graphs side-by-side. Left: a bar graph with the values 31.5, 30.6, and 37.7. Right: a pie chart with the same values.
map coloring probabilities of snow. This map goes from dark blue to light blue, and then dark purple to light purple... all within 0 to 100%, which isn't great
image showing how rankings of charts varies between people - "Individual rankings of visual effectiveness". "While the canonical bar < pie < stacked bar < bubble ranking is the most likely for any individual to have, our model estimate that only 20-25% of people will have that canonical ranking... and only about 75-80% of people will have bar as the best visualization"
Zoomed in version of choropleth shown in nytimes article. I highlighted the visual encoding for "State rate show" and pointed to areas on the map that are colored with that visual encoding
image from Android's promo video. It shows an AR scene about baseball with several screens and data overlays at once
Same graph as before, with red circles around y-axis labels that are next to the data instead of aligned on the left-hand side
Same graph as before, this time the bolded, blue Peyton line is annotated with "But Peyton Manning - the focus of the story - is given the boldest text + thickest line of blue"
The same graph from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/19/upshot/peyton-manning-breaks-touchdown-passing-record.html This time, the gray, faded lines are annotated with "Most QBs are deemphasized by making ti light gray + no labels"
Top graph from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/19/upshot/peyton-manning-breaks-touchdown-passing-record.html . Shows rising lines, each representing a different NFL QB's touchdowns over time. The focus is Peyton Manning, a thicker blue line.
Small multiple line chart showing how snowpack in CO compares to recent years.
Screenshot of upcoming forecast in Denver. Nearly every day for the next 2 weeks is sunny with highs between the 40s and 60s.
map of winter warnings & advisories in Colorado. Two arrows point to just inside the "winter warning advisory" and just outside the "winter warning advisory"