Eastern Europe Bike Trip in Google Earth

I recently combined all of the GPS files from our ~1000-mile 26-day bike trip this past summer and uploaded them into Google Earth. The result is a path that you can “fly over” and follow. Google Earth also allowed me to plot an elevation profile of the trip. Unsurprisingly, our favorite parts are almost exactly … Read more

Data Journalism — A Guest Entry for the NGen Blog

The following is a blog entry I contributed to the Independent Sector’s NGen Blog on data and the non-profit sector.  Anyone poking around online newspapers has noticed a proliferation of info-graphics and maps. If these graphics are done well, they can tell a story much more quickly than a series of paragraphs. Introducing data journalism … Read more

The Life of del Fuego

Recently, while biking my Bruce Gordon Rock ‘n’ Road Tour-Ex uphill in San Francisco, my handlebars snapped just below the right break lever. The aluminum had fatigued from the months of my leaning on it and the other abuse — being thrown on its side in the back of pickup trucks in Venezuela, having cargo … Read more