"Researchers found that walkable city design—not personal motivation—was the key factor behind people taking 1,100 more steps per day." www.scientificamerican.com/article/movi...

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

Super excited to share the 0.6 update to my R package for text mining. Designed for students new to #RStats (and text mining), it’s nevertheless what I use in my own work. This update packs in a ton, but my favorite new features are methods logging and labels. jmclawson.github.io/tmtyro/news/...

🚨🚨 🪶📊🎨 🚨🚨 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