Each gold thread is one literal word, running left to right through time. When a larger share of records contains it than across the whole archive, it tears loose over the gray warp: the further above usual, the higher it flies, and well above usual it knots into a loop. It flies up when its rate rose from the period before and down when it fell. Otherwise it runs underneath as faint glints. The warp buckles where many words surface at once, dashed thread marks periods with very few records, and cut thread is missing dates, not silence. Words overlap, show no stance and may include shared material.
Matt Stiles/CNN archive, CC0 archive terms; underlying post rights separate. Captured account records, Feb 14, 2022 to Nov 4, 2026. Code: Luke Steuber, MIT.
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Luke Steuber Data Poems