Rob Arthur

@robarthur.bsky.social

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Data journalist, data scientist, freelancer published many places: WSJ, NYT, the Atlantic, the Guardian, etc. Before that: staff at FiveThirtyEight Before that: an evolutionary geneticist.

Chart showing arrests and criminal charges in DC. Arrests are up, charges are down.
Email from Morgan Sword to Lloyd Smith and others asking about whether they've seen Rob Arthur's article.
Violin plots showing the distribution of actual and apparent ages for men vs. women.
Scatter plot showing actual vs. predicted movie popularity. There's a strong correlation (R2=0.584), indicating that the method is fairly accurate.
Chart showing the aging curve of movie crew members in selected departments (male and female). Female crew members show an earlier peak that drops off faster, suggesting bias against them.
stupid Trump meme of himself as Jesus
screencapped still from Youtube video about Yusei Kikuchi with the auto-generated transcription+translation: "Kikuko has two uteruses"
Chart showing the % of POC by cast billing order. Supporting actors are much more likely to be POC than the main stars.
Chart showing Oscar nominations for people of color increasing for cast members since 2015, but not for crew Oscars.
Chart showing the average skin color of players around a baseball diamond. For white players, skin color doesn't matter. For players of color, darker-skinned players tend to be in the outfield, while lighter-skinned players are at catcher, third base, and pitcher.
chart describing the tweet.
chart showing change in hit probability in 2023
AI generated art. Abstract spheres and lines on an orange and blue wavy background. Kandinsky.
AI generated art. Person walks down a lonely curve in a road, trees on either side, against a red, faded sky.
AI generated art: double image, moon on the left with abstract blue shapes, stars in the background; strange green face on the right, on red-orange swirly background. Picasso artist prompt.
AI generated painting, a family at the beach, view facing the water with boats in the background against a cloudy sky, and people facing the viewer in the foreground, most carrying umbrellas. Artists: Tony Fitzpatrick and Mary Cassatt
AI generated image: figure in colorful triangular panes holding an object in front of them on a background of abstract shapes and spheres. Influence of George Braque and Juan Gris
AI generated image, cartoony flower puff creatures surrounded by colorful petals float over a distorted sphere
AI generated painting of a jazz singer in front of a microphone, abstract cubist multicolored effect. Artists: Sam Francis, George Braque and Juan Gris
AI generated art. Abstract with leaves and stems, in pastels: blue, pink, and orange. Artists: Lee Krasner and Alexandre Gabriel Decamps
AI generated, Mario by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
AI generated image of a father (maybe?) in Mario hat and his son, to the right, who is clearly baby Mario
AI generated image. Black and white. Large tree dominates the foreground with rays of light streaming through it. Solitary, small figure at its base. Artist prompts: William France and Minor White
AI generated image of a man in coat and cap reclining against a background of vivid orange dots and blackbirds. Artists in prompt: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Andrea Mantegna
AI generated. Man stands to the right on a blue plane against a red sky, with spheres floating in the background and paint dripping. Artist prompt: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
AI generated art, central figure with red cape in navy suit stands amidst whirl of characters, clouds, and landscapes. Artists: Okumura Masanobu and Diego Rivera
AI generated painting of a flower in geometric formations, pink flower on varying blue backgrounds with orange and white lines bisecting the image, influence of Martha Rosler and James Rosenquist
AI generated, John Graham and Maurits Cornelis Escher, sailboat at dawn
AI generated. Cosmic space-scape. Influence of Matisse and Ivan Albright. Many colors, floating spheres, streams of silver
Midjourney art, cellular bio terms and Samuel van Hoogstraten and Gustave Baumann, stained glass fibers and bubbles
Midjourney-generated art. Combination of cell biology prompts, stars/galaxies, and Henri Martin+James Ensor
AI generated. A woman in a kimono stands in front of an orange, leafy, abstract background. Artist inspirations: Toulouse-Lautrec and Ashiru.
AI-generated cityscape, colorfull with a river and road in the foreground and multicolored pastel skyscrapers behind. Kandinsky, Monet, Whistler, and O'Keefe are in the prompt
AI-generated art, view from beneath an underpass or train line, industrial with strong directional light. Artist prompts are Okumura Masanobu and Eugène Delacroix
AI-generated art, figures in outline in the lower left on a background of stars and geometric figures, orange and blue-green color scheme
AI generated art, a little blob figure stands in silhouette before a city lit up in green, red, blue, and yellow, on a background of swirling orbs reminiscent of planets
AI generated image, watercolor-ish of a river through a city with a small boat in the middle, buildings on either side
AI-generated image--a river running through a purple/orange/green mountain forest, with a beautiful sunset in the background. Stained glass effect and style from Gustave Klimt