I'm Spencer — welcome to the page!

• 🎨 Most of my projects are centered around data processing and visualization, with a bit of developer utility libraries mixed in for zest
• 🏛️ During the day, I work at @constituentvoice building utilties that help citizens connect with their elected representatives
• ☕ In my off hours, I spend my time playing music, writing (at @chaoticgoodcomputing), and drinking a reprehensible amount of drip coffee.

I try to make a habit of publishing interesting/helpful notes from my Obsidian vault. If you read one and want to chat more about it, reach out!

• APL: Pattern 0; Introduction: Can graphs be libertarian? Authoritarian? Annotations for the introductory portion of the 1977 book A Pattern Language. (9 min read)

  • Tags: #a-pattern-language, #the-neighborhood, #policy

• Ants in the Neighborhood: Is Jane Street run by soccer-loving ants? Inconclusive. We can conclude that they're fans of Markov Chains, though — an invaluable tool for understanding complex data structures. (1 min read)

  • Tags: #data, #the-neighborhood, #a-pattern-language

• A Pattern Language, and a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The beginning of a topological review of the 1977 urban design and architecture reference book A Pattern Language, and a journey to understand Earth's greatest graph: the Earth, itself. (12 min read)

  • Tags: #the-neighborhood, #a-pattern-language, #data, #policy

• Systems: Week 7: (1 min read)

  • Tags: #systems

• Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow: Annotations for Greiner's 1972 paper "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow", about the structural composition of organizations at different sizes and requirements. (0 min read)

  • Tags: #strategy, #annotations, #ai, #dayjob