STEP-CM Analytics
AI Lab.
These are AI-powered data excursions, checked by me, over time.
01
Climate · Time series
Vital signs of a warming world →
Seven long-run lines — global temperature, CO₂, ocean heat, sea level, Arctic sea ice, ice-sheet mass, and extreme rain — each measured by a different instrument and agency, all bending the same way. Pulled from NASA, NOAA, NSIDC, and the GRACE satellites, with the caveats named.
02
Clinical trials · Prototype
Where the trial leaks — an information-flow simulator →
Arm a clinical-trial failure, press play, and watch a participant’s information route through the coordinator into forms, binders, and stakeholders — each blockage, everyone starved downstream, who’s accountable, and the hit to the participant-safety and data-credibility scores.
03
Gas prices · US vs Canada
Gas at the pump: the US and Canada, side by side →
Two countries, two units, one world oil price. Retail gasoline since 2006 — the near-lockstep with crude, the tax gap, and the 2025–26 cuts that just shrank Canada’s fuel taxes.
04
Rural health · Canada
Farther from care, more avoidable deaths →
Potentially avoidable mortality climbs 2.3× as Canadian communities get more remote — the data case for why health research done in and for rural systems is both harder and more valuable.
05
Game theory · Interactive
The game theory of the graceful exit →
Six models of the conference-line exit problem — the coordination game, Bayesian signalling, the escape-route offer, the repeated-game shadow — each with knobs to turn. A companion to the conference-room simulation.
06
Demography · Interactive
Living longer, unevenly →
Life expectancy across the rich world and beyond — the US falling behind, the COVID dip, South Korea's astonishing rise, and how many of those years are actually healthy ones.
07
Prices · Interactive
The cost of living, two ways →
Two questions hide in "cost of living": has it gone up here, and is it higher there? Inflation since 2000 for the G7, and how pricey each country is now — measured in Big Macs.
08
Agent-based model · Interactive
The physics of a conference room →
A live social-dynamics simulation: 100 people cluster into cliques, a few open minds bridge them, and oversized groups split — press Run and watch it breathe.
09
Epidemiology · Interactive
Measles, before and after the vaccine →
The famous Project Tycho heatmap rebuilt from source, the post-elimination era rescaled, and the global resurgence as vaccination coverage slips.
10
Leading indicators · Interactive
Which way is the economy turning? →
Leading indicators that bend before the business cycle turns — in both directions — for the US, Canada, and the major economies.
11
Study design · Simulation
What unblinding does to a clinical trial →
A live Monte Carlo simulation: watch a drug that does nothing become a statistical "success" as the blind breaks.
12
Labour · Interactive
Canada's labour market, five ways →
One chart, five lenses — unemployment and employment by province, age, industry, education, and occupation, back to 1976.
13
Trade · Interactive
Canada's trade and the 2025 tariff cliff →
Three decades of Canada's trade with its top partners — and the surge, then the cliff, around the 2025 U.S. tariffs.