Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

This is disturbing… a single ChatGPT query uses 10x more energy than using a search engine. One 100-word email drafted by ChatGPT-4 uses about a water bottle’s worth of H2O, and enough electricity to power 14 LED lightbulbs for an hour.

This loss the year that @USAID was dismantled feels like an extra gut punch.

Coming up to mother's day, I've been thinking a lot about parenting and the intersections with my work. So, here are five ways for kids to learn to love data (with book recs, activities, and even a show!) that we've used with our littles. #dataviz vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/five-ways-...

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

@frank.computer's "Minimalism and the Absurdity of the Data-to-Ink Ratio" will make you chuckle if you're a #dataviz designer, but also challenges us in a good way: how has minimalism become a way for some “intellectuals” in our field to enforce aesthetics as law? www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...

Nothing surprises me these days, but the absolute childishness and entitlement of "just say yes!" is painful.

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

First they came for USAID...now the same playbook.

He wasn’t just censored. They altered his responses to NYT questions on his publication Egregious. www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/h...

It was an absolute honor judging #IronViz at #TC25. Each of the contestants did an INCREDIBLE job on their vizzes, and huge congrats to Bo on his win! #dataviz

Taking the chart chat offline for the night and only spending a fraction talking about Dashboards that Deliver book things with @acotgreave.bsky.social @datarevelations.com & @jeffshaffer.bsky.social. Can't wait to see so many friendly faces at #TC25!

Being on an upper hotel floor as it starts to shake was not on my #TC25 bucket list.

In San Diego for #TC25 this week! Counting down to IronViz Wednesday and Chart Chat live on Thursday, and looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues this week. I've got DVS, Chart Chat, and Dashboards that Deliver swag in tow too. Stop me to say hi & I'm happy to share! #dataviz

We are destroying the systems and teams who improved screening standards, in private outbreaks, collect data on population health, and more. MAHA is an ideological joke wrapped in a fear of red food dye.

A moment of zen at sunrise for the timeline.

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

Research doesn't happen on this timeline. Plus, people with autism have been speaking out about how this kind of framing is dangerous and insulting (read the replies).

Info+ submissions are open! This year's theme is around ENERGY (which I personally think dovetails with Outlier's "Reimagining" theme nicely). If you have an interesting perspective to share in the world of #dataviz and information design more broadly: informationplusconference.com/2025/submiss...

Not one public health person is surprised by this, but it's frightening nonetheless.

Taxation was a tool used by kings to demand compliance and suppress protests. RESIST.

It's election day here in Wisconsin! Vote Crawford, and prove that Musk cannot buy a seat on our Supreme Court and continue to support CHOICE here in Wisco. #dataviz with megablocks from @motherhoodforgood.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DH1GiSS...

A reminder that spending time in nature, whether that's in the mountains or 20m under the sea, is a beautiful thing.

Have you seen a good candidate for a chart makeover? We seek ideas for Chart Chat at Tableau Conference. We have some ideas, but would love to hear from you. Got any good makeover candidates? cc: @datarevelations.com @jeffreyshaffer.bsky.social @abmakulec.bsky.social

The residents of DC already have NO VOTING REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. The license plates say "end taxation without representation." And now Congress wants to dictate terms on the District's budget spending? FFS

Trump's smoke-and-mirrors act for blurring reality: Step 1: Gather your data. Step 2: Disappear the data you don't like. Step 3: Replace with something else! Ta da! Inconvenient truths gone! Gift link: wapo.st/4iCmMtn

The whole series is gold for #dataviz designers, and more important now than ever. Sometimes, resistance comes in more inclusive, representative, thoughtful graphics.

Have you nominated someone in #dataviz for the 2024 Impactful Community Leader award? There's no shortage of people doing more than great design, and @datavizsociety.bsky.social added this as one of two special IIB Awards to recognize those efforts. www.datavisualizationsociety.org/iib-awards-s...

Speaking at Outlier 📊 was an absolute blast! @datavizsociety.bsky.social put on a great show. 10/10 would recommend! You've got until Saturday to apply for Outlier 2025 in Miami! In case you need inspiration for your own talk, these were some of my favorites from last year... 🧵🧵🧵

After living in DC for 15 years, I finally have voting representation in Congress. With town halls! It's amazing! (Don't take it for granted!)

Surely given Jay Bhattacharya's concern about censorship and academic freedom, he will step in and promptly reverse this decision.

The IIB Awards long list is LIVE! Enough incredible #dataviz to distract you for the rest of the day (or week)... Congrats to the @datavizsociety.bsky.social team for all of the work that happens behind the scenes to run the Awards. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...

Never underestimated the scrappiness of public health people. A volunteer team is working to rebuild a CDC site with all of the useful keep-us-healthier information that the site used to have. restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/

This absolutely guts me. There were so many examples of exceptional #dataviz and data journalism on the 538 site, and to see that work erased is a loss for our field. The main site URL redirects to the ABC News landing page. The Data page appears active for now: data.fivethirtyeight.com

So many nerdy laughs in the replies.

Join us in an hour for Chart Chat live! We're talking about charts that can be confusing (radar, upset, violins, and more) and will do a lighting round about the NYT opinions scatterplot. Stream on YouTube or LinkedIn www.youtube.com/live/ZzUtEM2...

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

The number of people who I know on paid admin leave because this admin disagrees that their agency should exist just screams 'efficiency'. It's absurd.

I agree with the big picture points made around our ethics and responsibilities in #dataviz that Francis outlines. But we create charts of ideas all the time that help explain concepts or positions & I think those *can* have a lot of value. For me, the lead chart on the article fails 2 ways. 1/4

"Models make words, but people make meaning." Something similar applies in #dataviz: we can use data to set up the basic structures of charts, but all of the design decisions we make as chart creators and the ways people *use* those charts are what make them meaningful.

Is the democratization of #dataviz a good thing? Reflecting on the Fourth Wave white paper I coauthored with @elijahmeeks.bsky.social, thinking through the more specific implications for #dataviz creators and for society as a whole. I'm optimistic. vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/fourth-wav...

I've kept my WaPo subscription because I think their graphics team does some exceptional work, but this directive is a clear directive to discontinue that subscription. A lot of things feel beyond our influence, but as consumers deciding where to spend money, collectively, makes a difference.

Outlier is the annual #dataviz conference hosted by @datavizsociety.bsky.social and speaker applications for 2025 are finally open! The theme - Reimagining - invites all sorts of topics, from reimagining how we work to innovations in design. Can't wait for June!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

What else would you add as seminal works in #dataviz from recent years?

Nothing better than digging into the nuances of what makes a char type work well (or not). #dataviz

Perhaps the most relaxed member of our household these days, basking in the sunshine.

There's a lot in this map: county population sizes (bubbles), unemployment rates (color), a base map to help us organize the counties (gray), and that delightful histogram legend to see the distribution of counties. Much richer than a choropleth!