🚨🚨 🪶📊🎨 🚨🚨 Good news for all of you bird + data + art enthusiasts: I've opened registration for THREE cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials starting in March. One contemplative monthly cohort & two bi-weekly ones. Guaranteed to change your 🧠! www.jerthorp.me/learning

Brilliant choice of bivariate color palette in this map of water stress from @wriclimate.bsky.social & ESRI. I love how it draws attention to areas with high demand for water with saturated colors, & distinguishes low & high availability with a striking change in hue. via @dantoearth.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 on this thread, and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the link: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

“In recent weeks, nearly two dozen elected officials on both sides of the aisle said they were targeted after getting caught in the president's crosshairs.” I got to contribute to this @NBCNews.com piece by Dareh Gregorian and Jiachuan Wu: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

I’m thrilled to share that my new book (Spatial Data Management with DuckDB) is now published! 🎉 At 430 pages, this book provides a practical, hands-on guide to scalable geospatial analytics and visualization using DuckDB. All code examples are open-source and freely available on GitHub.

SveltePlot 0.7 is out! Lots of new features since the last time I posted here: 🎉 jitter transform, 🐝 dodge transform (for beeswarm plots), 🎉 stackMarimekko, 📸 image mark, and most recently the 🧇 waffle mark! And the website now features a ton of examples. ➡️ svelteplot.dev

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

Hey Bluesky! You can follow the @economist.com data team here if you want to see more of our analysis and charts in your feed go.bsky.app/BJSsLHw

Have you ever wanted to make your own climate warming stripes plot? It's super easy with #rstats! (code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

The Open Visualization Academy's newsletter is expanding! New contributor: Melissa Strong, who is also co-designing the OVA's website. Her first article in a series of 6: 'How Open Source Fuels the Future of Data Visualization (Part 1) ' openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/how-open-s...

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers. by @TheEconomist

#30DayMapChallenge - November’s 30DayMapChallenge is fast approaching - and the daily themes for this year’s event have been released! googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/10/30-d...

Woot, just submitted another dataset to #TidyTuesday and now there are 5 PRs waiting for Jon to review. I screenrecorded the process, so if you want to see how EASY it is to contribute a dataset to this AMAZING #rstats community, check out this video. youtu.be/Kp7pyYwLcwc

I ruptured my achilles in January. Couch-bound for most of the winter, I read over a dozen books about walking journeys. I was inspired. Obsessed? I decided to walk across Massachusetts. You decide how to experience my story here: pudding.cool/2025/10/walk/

Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset! Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come! www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

🌏 A compact snapshot on where people live around the globe (2023 data) — over 60% of #humans live in #Asia! I originally created a more basic version for our new #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson on 🎨 "Color Choice" to discuss color accessibility: 👉 www.ggplot2-uncharted.com/module2/colo...

If you're trying to learn the birds in a place (either where you live or a travel spot), eBird has a quiz! ebird.org/quiz/ You're also helping rate the quality of images. I'm using this right now to brush up on the birds of Raja Ampat, where I'll be leading a trip in December.

New visual story: Bird migration is one of nature’s greatest spectacles — and scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into how new threats are reshaping these epic journeys. Follow the remarkable travels of three birds as they fly across the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks). 👉 github.com/rogerbeecham... #RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat

📊 #Dataviz PSA: When using areas to depict numbers, make sure you are indeed scaling the *area*, and not the width/length/diameter of the circles (or other shapes). Because software such as Illustrator don’t let you specify the area directly, you need do a small calculation to get it right. 1/2

Wondering if you can outsource your data viz work to ChatGPT? 📊 I tested out a few different generative AI tools, giving them prompts to visualise two different data sets. If you're interested in the results, you can read them here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/gen-ai-... #RStats #Python #DataViz #GenAI

BIG NEWS! We've updated the website of the Open Visualization Academy, where you can see all its contributors: openvisualizationacademy.org This is the announcement in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/we-re-back... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVis 📊 1/x

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. informationisbeautiful.net/data/

Looking for #dataviz inspiration? My www.dataviz-inspiration.com project keeps growing! 🚀 Hundreds of stunning projects, filterable by chart types. A bit like Pinterest, but for dataviz🙃 What are your favorite projects? Your favorite creators? I would love to add them!! 🙏

Big news: The archive of my old weblog, The Functional Art, is back online: www.thefunctionalart.com The blog won't be updated anymore, though. In the next 2-3 weeks I'll share some news about resuming the newsletter of my upcoming big project: openvisualizationacademy.org #dataViz #dataVis 📊

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing

The virtual #user2025 event takes place today — and our talk "Plot Twist: Adding Interactivity to the Elegance of ggplot2 with ggiraph" airs is lined up next! 🎥 #rstats #ggiraph #ggplot2 #dataviz

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy