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Documenting Fieldwork: Photos, Video, and Embedded Media
A practical guide to embedding rich media in Loom posts — photo galleries with lightbox, native video, YouTube and Vimeo embeds, and how to use...
Posts by Paul Hobson
10 articles
science
Glaciers I Have Known
A scroll-driven terrain tour of five glacier field sites across the Swiss Alps and Canadian Rockies — Findelen, Gorner, Mer de Glace, Peyto, and the...
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Interactive Maps with Mapbox GL JS
Full-featured vector maps with custom styles, scroll-driven flyTo transitions, and automatic dark mode switching — using the Mapbox GL JS adapter.
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Scrollytelling with Maps and Charts
How to build scroll-driven stories that update Leaflet maps and D3 charts as the reader scrolls through the narrative.
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Interactive Charts with ECharts and D3
Embedding interactive data visualisations using Apache ECharts and D3 — declarative markup, no JavaScript required in the post.
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Rendering Mathematics and Diagrams
How to embed KaTeX equations and Mermaid diagrams in posts — auto-detected, no configuration required.
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What Loom Is and How It Works
A fast Jekyll site with dark mode, computational essays, and a full visualisation runtime — what's in the stack and why each piece is here....
ecology
The Ricker Model: Population Dynamics Through a Single Equation
How a deceptively simple recurrence relation explains boom-bust cycles in fish populations — and what it reveals about chaos.