Monthly Archives: January 2026

Text slopes and rings

Posted on January 18, 2026 by richardbrath

A Washington Post analysis of earnings calls visualizes rising CEO concerns by sloping keyword changes in context. For another “text on paths” approach, I explore placing quotations on circular rings, enabled by rapid LLM-assisted visualization design. Continue reading →

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Free movies (and LLM-aided viz design)

Posted on January 3, 2026 by richardbrath

An LLM-driven exploration of visualizing 800 National Film Registry movies. After failed genre and text-embedding approaches, the author uses LLMs to generate nuanced attributes, cluster films, and design an interactive visualization that reveals meaningful similarities without standard categories, reflecting on strengths and limits of “Team LLM” design iteration. Continue reading →

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