Fathom Information Design

In part 2 of his "non-technical guide to Delphy" series, Mark walks through how Delphy's web interface allows you to evaluate the progress and quality of your run from start to finish. www.fathom.info/notebook/260...

We set aside some time last week to tinker around with our office tools! Please enjoy Ellory's signature Angry Owl doodle taking on a new form with our embroidery machine (and keep an eye out for more on our other recent experiments!)

To celebrate Delphy's publication in Nature this week, Mark put together a guide for understanding the basics of Markov Chain Monte Carlo and why these methods are so useful for tracking the evolution of an outbreak.

One of our goals with Delphy is to be a resource for scientists and researchers who need to work with sequencing data, but do not have the technical expertise or computing resources to make use of traditional tools for phylogenetic inference.

We’re incredibly excited to share that Delphy, our tool for generating and exploring phylogenetic trees, has been published in Nature! Check out the paper here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sequencing data is a critical source of information when it comes to understanding how a pathogen spreads and evolves over time, and we built Delphy's web interface to remove as many barriers to entry for phylogenetics as possible.

We’re incredibly excited to share that Delphy, our tool for generating and exploring phylogenetic trees, has been published in Nature! Check out the paper here! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last Friday, our intern Dila said goodbye with an incredible presentation all about her journey navigating Javascript and CSS with us this summer. We sent her off with a custom All Streets map of Cyprus and wish her all the best in her next adventure!

This summer, we welcomed Rekha as the latest member of our team! Rekha is a developer and designer with a background in theoretical linguistics and interactive journalism.

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This summer, we welcomed Rekha as the latest member of our team! Rekha is a developer and designer with a background in theoretical linguistics and interactive journalism.

Revisiting some old favorite datasets in Rowboat lately (*cough* Squirrels! *cough*), I've been appreciating some of our recent updates that make it much easier to work with and apply changes to multiple columns at the same time.

One of our beloved tools (or toys) in the office is this knitting machine, which we once used to make personalized patterns for our 2019 holiday cards. Lately, we've been getting re-acquainted with the machine by making small two-color swatches out of digital image patterns.

Lately, we've been going down a rabbit hole of data about place names in the US. Here, we can take our New England town establishment data into Rowboat and do two cool things: see a detailed county map and play it over time to see the northward spread of towns in the area, all in just 15 seconds.

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davis. A little over a decade ago, Mark's passion for jazz developed into one of our all-time favorite projects: Scaled in Miles.

This look into the iconic career of Miles Davis pays tribute to the profound influence Miles had on the genre of jazz by exploring the many collaborations that shaped his body of work.

We've been dreaming about hardware hacking for a few years and finally have the pieces we need. Ben, Karlie, and Andy put together about twenty of these gadgets. We did a dry run making weather displays in the studio yesterday, then got students set up at Ben’s information design class today.

These are powered by the Raspberry Pi Pico with a Pico Display on top — just 2in long and 1in wide!

We just pushed out our last big batch of Rowboat improvements and fixes before the end of the year. Fun fact: the most long-lived issue that we managed to close in this time was one that had been open for 2 years and 4 months. Feels good to finally get that one resolved!

This year we celebrated the holidays by gathering together our favorite cozy winter treats and comfort meals to share with our friends and families. You can visit the charming animated cookbook Paul put together to read, print, and share our recipes: www.fathom.info/holiday/25/