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The Colorado River is at risk due to drought and states using more Tags: Colorado River , consumption , drought , Reuters , water

9/11 in Realtime, developed by Robbie Byrd, replays the news on the day Tags: 9/11 , news , real-time , Robbie Byrd

Riley Walz charted drawing trends on student art portfolio Artsonia. Kids shape culture, Tags: Artsonia , drawing , Riley Walz , trends

Imagine a pottery wheel that turns clay on an axis. A potter forms Tags: curve , Karim Doueb , pottery

This week, I describe the many small choices one must make while working on a set of charts. Tags: behind the scenes

There are thousands of crew members aboard U.S. warships in the Middle East. Tags: Iran , logistics , New York Times , war

It is trivial to generate bodies of text on infinite topics, so of Tags: Internet , Pew Research , writing

Here is what happened in August. Tags: roundup

For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill analyzed newsletters and social media posts Tags: data center , politics , Washington Post

For the New York Times, Mira Rojanasakul and Brad Plumer report on the Tags: electric vehicle , New York Times

When you spend more than you make, you get debt. For the Washington Tags: debt , government , revenue , spending , Washington Post

This week is about changing perspectives so we can find and visualize new insights. Tags: perspective

Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data. Tags: Gizmodo , Google , Spirit Airlines , training

For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the Tags: spending , technology , Wall Street Journal

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI Tags: 404 Media , Amazon , tracking , training

To avoid heavy solar tariffs, China allegedly moved manufacturing to other countries. When Tags: Bloomberg , China , solar , tariff

Multiple bots exploited a vulnerability in OpenAIs security system to gain internet access. Tags: attack , bot , OpenAI

This week, we talk flimsy results and how to work on things that build trust over content. Tags: Large Language Model , mistakes , trust

In the early 1900s, Henry Gannett cataloged the origins of city names in Tags: cities , Henry Gannett , history , names , Wall Street Journal

Speaking of IKEA, the IKEA complexity index by Greg Technology is a catalog Tags: complexity , furniture , Greg Technology , IKEA

For the European Correspondent, Toon Vos counted the color of all the couches Tags: color , European Correspondent , furniture , IKEA

For sheets.works, Akash Wadhwani visualized the mapping efforts of volunteers after an earthquake Tags: Akash Wadhwani , buildings , earthquake , OpenStreetMap

This is issue No. 400 of the Process. Four hundred. It only took me eight years. Tags: future , past , present