It’s Time to Place a Pascal’s Wager on AI

October 24, 2025

Reframing Pascal’s Wager for the age of agentic AI and the exponential climb in uninterrupted runtime.

From Brevity Bias to Context Intelligence

October 13, 2025

Stanford's ACE framework shows how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can evolve their own context instead of collapsing it. That capability is a critical shift for public safety systems that demand institutional memory.

The Age of Cheap Intelligence

October 13, 2025

The cost of intelligence is collapsing, and the winners in 2026 will be the teams that know how to route work across a mesh of specialized models rather than worship the single frontier model.

Standing at the Cliff: AI at the Edge of 2026

September 29, 2025

Two Webs, One Future: Humans, Robots, and the Internet's Split Personality

September 7, 2025

Exploring the emerging dual Internet: one version built for people, another built for machines, and why both matter for the future of web design.

The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Why AI Context Engineering Has Brought Us Full Circle in the Public Sector

September 5, 2025

Frontier Models Are Just the Beginning

September 5, 2025

The Power of Configurable Platforms in Public Safety Modernization

September 3, 2025

Stop Calling It an 'AI Pilot': We're Wasting PhD-Level Intelligence on Intern-Level Tasks

August 22, 2025

The real scandal isn't whether the latest AI model feels revolutionary. It's that we're still calling advanced AI deployment a 'pilot' while treating PhD-level intelligence like unpaid interns.

Building the Foundation for Statewide Public Safety Modernization

July 23, 2025

From Zero to Deployed: An AI's Log of Building Kevin Magnan's Website

April 21, 2025

Chicago Summer Violence Analysis

May 31, 2024

Analysis of Chicago summer violence patterns

Tableau Conference 2021 Blog in Partnership with Slalom

January 1, 2022

Check out this blog I wrote in partnership with Slalom Consulting and a colleague of mine at the company. Hopefully TC22 will return to in person so we can truly experience a TC event! https://www.slalom.com/insight/data-viz-trends-2022

Lessons learned from Tufte: Sparklines and datawords

April 5, 2021

This mini-blog series will explore real-world examples of my interpretation and inclusion of design theories and examples from Edward Tufte. In this post, I explore a familiar topic of combining text, numbers, and data lines into large-scale visualization

Interactive Resume in Tableau

March 11, 2021

Interactive resume visualization in Tableau

Google Takeout Data Analysis

November 13, 2020

Analysis of personal Google Takeout data

World of Warcraft Buzz Analysis

October 28, 2020

Analysis of World of Warcraft community buzz

Your Mom's House Podcast Analysis - Part 2

October 16, 2020

Second part of Your Mom's House podcast analysis

Your Mom's House Podcast Analysis - Part 1

October 11, 2020

First part of Your Mom's House podcast analysis

Chicago SSL Scores Analysis

June 14, 2017

Analysis of Chicago SSL scores

Mapping with GeoDa

June 5, 2017

Tutorial on mapping with GeoDa