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Toby Lunt

Hi, I'm Toby. I like to make things. I try to make useful and beautiful things! I'm a co-founder of Development Data Lab, where we help solve major social problems in developing countries using novel datasets. I lead data engineering, data science, geospatial, and visualization at DDL.

My past lives include being a line cook at a fancy restaurant and a Fulbrighter to Ethiopia, where I worked on agricultural development projects alongside smallholder farmers. I also build furniture, restore old sailboats, and I really like maps.

This site is intended to be a landing page and a means for sharing my hobbies, interests, and side projects.

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Tools I have been liking recently

D3 :
Very fine-grained data visualization engine. I keep coming back to D3.
LangChain and LangSmith :
LLM prompt management, metrics, traces, and a solid API.
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks :
Heirloom quality woodworking tools.
Mapbox GL JS :
Powerful slippy maps and spatial data representation. Nice SDK.