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Using CSV data courtesy of the UK Met Office, I've managed to generate these KML files, that can then be animated into the ash cloud sequence from the 1st of May to the 24th.
The 3D cloud is displayed in three bands of flight levels:
- Surface level to flight level 200
- Flight level 200 to 350
- Flight level 350 to 550
For more information, download the Google Earth archive file from 1st of May to the 24th - click here.
Susan Athey has spent her career at the intersection of economics and technology, shaping the way we understand markets, digital platforms, and the power of data. A pioneering economist, she has influenced everything from auction theory to the role of artificial intelligence in decision-making. Her work doesn’t stay confined to academia—it has helped shape corporate strategy, public policy, and even the foundations of modern tech regulation.
Athey’s research spans a wide range of topics, but at its core is a drive to understand how digital platforms shape economic behavior. She is the first woman to win the John Bates Clark Medal—awarded to the most influential American economist under 40—she has long been recognized as a leader in the field. She has advised major tech firms, including Microsoft, on machine learning applications and algorithmic market design. But her role is not just one of insight—it is one of action.
When I photographed Athey at her home near Stanford on February 20, 2025, she had recently completed her tenure as an appointee in the Justice Department, where she played a central role in shaping modern antitrust policy. Just as the news broke that the Trump administration planned to retain the 2023 Merger Guidelines, it became clear how significant her contributions had been. As a principal author of these guidelines, she helped establish the economic rationale for blocking mergers that allowed dominant firms to entrench their power—whether by acquiring complementary products that could be leveraged to sustain monopolies or by enabling major digital platforms to eliminate competitive threats.
Her team at the DOJ pursued major monopolization cases, taking on industry giants like Live Nation/Ticketmaster, UnitedHealth, Google, and Apple. One of the most consequential victories came in a case exposing Google’s multi-billion-dollar payments to Apple to maintain search defaults—an arrangement that reinforced Google’s dominance in online search. The success of these cases underscored the growing role of economic analysis in defining the limits of corporate power in the digital age.
Her home reflected the balance she maintains between rigorous intellectual work and a rich personal life. Books filled the rooms, covering economics, policy, and technology, but also literature and philosophy. Her husband, Nobel laureate Guido Imbens, was there, and the two economists moved easily between topics—discussing research, policy, and art.
Athey is not just an observer of economic systems; she is a force in shaping them. Whether designing better algorithms for online marketplaces, crafting legal arguments in high-stakes regulatory battles, or mentoring the next generation of economists, her impact is undeniable. She operates with a rare mix of precision and pragmatism—able to model an abstract problem with mathematical rigor, but always with an eye toward real-world consequences.
In a digital age where power is increasingly concentrated, Athey’s work is a reminder that economics is not just about theory—it is about accountability, fairness, and the systems that shape our daily lives.
El pasado 20 de febrero, se llevó a cabo en la Universidad Rafael Landívar el foro "Los retos del periodismo en la era del open data", en el que periodistas y representantes de gobiernos debatieron sobre los avances en acceso a la información, apertura informativa y cómo esto contribuye al periodismo de investigación. Moderó Luis Botello, Director de Proyectos Especiales del ICFJ. Los panelistas fueron:
- Aurora Cubías, Subsecretaria de Transparencia y Anticorrupción del Gobierno de
El Salvador
- Jorge Mario Andrino, Secretario General de la Procuraduría de Guatemala
- Juan Luis Font, Director Revista ContraPoder, Guatemala
- Miguel González Moraga, representante de la Organización Civitas, Guatemala
- Nery Mabel Reyes, Directora de prensa de radio YSKL, El Salvador.
- Roberto Hugo Preza, Director de noticias del Grupo Megavisión, El Salvador
- Selvin Lima, representante de la Comisión para la Transparencia del Gobierno de
Guatemala
- Silvio Gramajo, Doctor de Investigación Social con énfasis en Ciencias Políticas,
Transparencia, Comunicación Política.
- Ignacio Rodríguez, director Revista Emeequis, México.
The Open Data Institute's second members networking event, held in conjunction with Telefonica, Dynamic Insights at Telefonica offices on Air street, London, November 2013.
The evening featured talks from Stuart Coleman (ODI), Roland Harwood, (100%Open), Mark Ainsworth (Telefonica Dynamic Insights), Maël Primet (Snips).
Just for fun, I downloaded and started playing with Azureus (a Java-based bittorrent client). It has some pretty nifty data visualization tools built-in; here are some screenshots for my future reference.
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‘On the day of separation from you in helplessness and loneliness nothing consoles us but the sorrow we feel for you.
O Jamali, resort for protection to the door of the friend, for our refuge is the door of the beloved!’
There lie many a stories behind the picturesque ruins in Mehrauli. Delhi is well known as a historic city & within Delhi, Mehrauli is a minefield of historical & archaeological data. Our heritage walk in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park covers some stunning monuments which have incredible stories behind them! The above verse was penned by Maulana Jamali, a sufi & poet whose mosque & tomb gives the park its local name, Jamali-Kamali.
Our heritage walk starts at the gateway to Balban’s tomb. Just after the gateway is a clearing created as a result of recent archaeological excavations. The excavations revealed stone flooring and some graves and rooms towards the east. A few months ago this patch of land was a mound covered with thick vegetation, so much so that covering the few yards between the gateway & Balban’s tomb was almost a trek! Right ahead is Sultan Balban’s tomb which is dated to late 13th century. This structure is remarkable for being the earliest building in the subcontinent to use the true arch in construction. The main compartment is now open to the sky & was originally roofed with a dome. Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveler who visited Delhi about 40 years after Balban mentions this tomb in his account as a shrine where “all debtors who entered it had their debts discharged, and if a man who had killed another took refuge there ,the Sultan bought him pardon from the friends of the deceased.” There is no evidence of a grave in the main room but the adjacent chamber has one and it is believed to be that of Khan Shaheed, Balban’s son. Khan Shaheed is a title which means ‘the martyr Khan’ given to Balban’s son who died fighting the Mongols. There is just a bit of plaster decoration & blue tile work visible on the walls & probably the whole structure would have been decorated thus.
There are remains of a late 17th century residential settlement around Balban’s tomb. This is significant cluster of ruins, being the only remains of a complete residential settlement in Delhi. A little ahead is the Jamali Kamali mosque. Jamali’s tomb is in a courtyard adjacent to the mosque. It is a square chamber with blue & green tile decoration on the roof. The interior is lovely with its blue & red plaster decoration and tile work on the walls. Verses composed by Maulana Jamali himself are incised on the walls just under the ceiling.
The area just north of Jamali Kamali mosque can perhaps be called the first farmhouse in Mehrauli ! This land was purchased by the British Resident, Thomas Metcalfe who re-landscaped the whole area. He bought a Mughal tomb…converted it into his residence…diverted a stream…built a carriageway over it…created an artificial lake in which stood a boathouse…and not to mention the follies shaped like canopies and ziggurats installed by Metcalfe all around his ‘farmhouse’!!!! He called it the ‘Dilkusha’ or ‘the delight of the heart’. The tomb which was of a Mughal noble, Muhammad Quli Khan, has undergone restoration & the blue painted decoration on its interior has been redone. The roof of the tomb offers a breathtaking view of the entire neighbourhood: the Qutb complex, Mehrauli village with Adam Khan’s tomb standing out in the skyline, a recently restored tomb on a hillock, Mahavir statue at Ahimsa Sthal, the dome of Jamali-Kamali mosque & Thomas Metcalfe’s follies jutting out of surrounding tree cover.
Our next stop was the Rajon ki baoli, an early 16th century step well. The baoli is one of the highlights of this heritage walk & a favourite with every visitor. Perhaps it is to do with manner in which it is revealed to the eye: the entire structure is subterranean, so as one approaches the entrance, one can only see the top-most storey. And each level of the baoli slowly reveals itself to the visitor as one walks towards its steps. The baoli-complex has a 12-pillared tomb & a mosque with some pretty plaster decoration on it.
Cell phones, tablets, and computers, what do they all have in common? Besides the fact that they are all technological devices and have similar components, they all contain important data. More specifically, information about the device owner. But who determines what happens to this data? Is it the owner’s decision or is it up to websites and companies who get their hands on it? This is where data privacy laws come into play.
Here's a list of the most notable data privacy laws from around the world.
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Participants capture during the Session "Big Data Visualization: A New Era in Mapping with the University of Tokyo" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Ghana data bootcamp was hosted by World Bank Institute, Africa Media Initiative and Google in May 2013
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
If reading all this had you intrigued and you want to pursue it further, you have a couple of learning choices. The longer route is the college degree, but some excellent data science bootcamps in California like SynergisticIT can help speed up the process and make you a data scientist in 5-6 months.