Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the Arden Labs podcast.

And our special guest today is someone I get to call a friend, Anthony Starks.

How's it going, Anthony?

Hi, everybody.

Dude, when is the last time we got to even hang out?

Dude, it's been forever, right?

I think it was in a New York meetup, probably over a year ago.

Okay, so let's let everybody kind of know what you're doing now, where you are now, like, give like the two-minute spiel about who Anthony Starks is and some of the work you're doing.

Sure. Right now I've been doing a lot of data visualization work, especially just in writing tools to be able to do that.

Just last week, I gave a talk on some work that I've been doing since 2019,

that is recreating some of the data visualizations from 1900, created by W.E.B. Du Bois.

So that's starting to get a little bit of traction.

So I'm working on data visualization tools right now.

Those are all done in Go right now.

So that's what I've been doing lately. And I'm very interested in

hearing your story and how you kind of developed this passion for the data visualizations. And

then how you are doing it in Go because we don't think of Go as a tool. No, you don't. No. And I know you've been doing

that for a while. So I'm really excited to get there. But I want to start, as I always do, right in the

beginning. And if you can help a little bit with maybe like what year we're talking about or how old

you are, I think it helps to set context.

So my favorite question is always,

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