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In 2008 we designed a hurricane tracker for MSNBC, right as Irene was “bearing down on Louisiana like a shotgun full of wind and rain.” The project worked fine for several seasons of hurricanes and tropical storms, until Apple killed Flash in 2011 and the world of interactive mapping and data visualization turned its attention...

Every year around this time in San Francisco things start to feel a little rushed, and there’s anticipation in the air as a whole slice of society hauls itself out to the middle of the Nevada desert for the annual Burning Man festival. I’m not going myself this year, but my good friend Zach Coffin...