2 Dashboards · Live · Companion Data · Updated Apr 2026

Live data, built from the reading.

One tracks the war on Gaza. The other maps who holds American wealth — and who doesn't. Both started with a book.

CompiledApril 2026
UpdatedLive · refreshed continuously
Built withClaude · Anthropic
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A book teaches you the history of a subject. Live data shows you where it stands today. These dashboards are my attempt to turn topics I've been reading about into something I can watch change in real time. Built with help from Claude, the AI assistant from Anthropic. They're exploratory rather than journalistic — extensions of the reading, meant to send you back to the books for real context.

The Dashboards · Two explorations · Live
  1. 75,200+
    violent deaths estimated by the Gaza Mortality Survey through Jan 2025
    The Lancet Global Health
    17,492
    children killed in Gaza as of Feb 2025
    Palestinian Ministry of Health
    12 / 36
    hospitals still functioning as of May 2025
    World Health Organization
    200+
    journalists killed since October 2023
    Committee to Protect Journalists
    Companion to · Middle East

    Conflict Casualties.

    Live casualty data from Gaza and the West Bank, drawn from the most reliable public sources — the Gaza Ministry of Health's administrative records, verified third-party surveys published in The Lancet, and UN OCHA field reporting. Built to make the scale of what's happening harder to turn away from.

    Books behind it
    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine· The Eyes of Gaza· One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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  2. 30.5%
    of U.S. household wealth held by the top 1%
    Federal Reserve · Q1 2024
    2.5%
    of U.S. household wealth held by the bottom 50%
    Federal Reserve · Q1 2024
    4.3×
    average wealth of white households ($1.5M) vs Black households ($352K)
    Federal Reserve · SCF 2022
    $2.7T
    combined net worth of the 12 wealthiest Americans
    Bloomberg Billionaires Index · Jan 2026
    Companion to · Black History · Feminism

    Lacunae.

    The racial and gender dimensions of wealth concentration in America. The top 1% owns roughly 30.5% of the country's wealth; the bottom 50% owns 2.5%. Broken down by race and by gender, the history on the Nonfiction page stops being history.

    Books behind it
    The 1619 Project· The New Jim Crow· Caliban and the Witch· Invisible Women
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Two explorations, and counting.

Each dashboard started with a book that left me with follow-up questions. More are in the queue — abortion access in the post-Roe map, climate displacement, prison labor. If a topic on the Nonfiction page raises a question for you, write in.

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