Stories by danso

A London Subway Experiment: Please Don’t Walk Up the Escalator

Why I Quit Twitter – And Left Behind 35,000 Followers

Startup lets landlords scan tenants' Facebook to check if they can pay rent

Why Wikipedia Could Become the People’s Newspaper of Record

Tidy data

How do some developers learn a new programming language in one night?

Neighbors Clash in Silicon Valley; Job growth far outstrips housing

The user-centered redesign of IdentityTheft.gov

Million Song Dataset: Audio features and metadata for 1M contemporary music tracks

Sympathy for the Nerd

Ridealong: The Ruin of Minecraft’s Most Obscene Server

Chicago review board releases 100s of police recordings on Vimeo and SoundCloud

Sixty Million Car Bombs: Inside Takata’s Air Bag Crisis

A moment that changed me: learning to upholster a chair

Punched Cards: A brief illustrated technical history

U.S. colleges ranked by number of affiliated Congressmembers

Music World Bands Together Against YouTube, Seeking Change to Law

Tenants fume over apartment complex's new Facebook addendum

Breaking the NES (2014)

Scientists surveyed on reproducibility in research