Our Rowboat tool is about instantly seeing what's in a dataset, so we added a Chrome Extension that lets you open random datasets from all over the internet. Right click, poof! 0.2 seconds later we see what this dataset actually looks like. No workspace to set up, no waiting for the app, no db.

Today, @vonter.bsky.social and I launched cbfc.watch, an archive of over 100k censorship records for ~18k movies released in India since 2017. For the first time, you can search for any movie and see how they were modified before release. The site is fun to explore, but here's some #dataviz in it!

📊 Visual journalism often takes weeks to produce, even though a similar written article may only take a day or two. Jonas Oesch takes a closer look at a typical visual story to uncover why it takes so long to produce and what can be done to speed up the process. nightingaledvs.com/why-visual-j...

Want to create your own custom marks in @observablehq.com Plot, but don't want to go full D3? I've created a guide with 6 approaches of varying sophistication for specifying reusable custom marks: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/h...

I wrote about the data-to-ink ratio and a new game I've invented called "ink golf" for data visualization. I hope you enjoy: www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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Where did DOGE's recruits come from? Here's what we've discovered. In late 2024, a group of young software engineers fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers. At least three were associated with Palantir or its cofounder—and Musk ally—Peter Thiel.

Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.

It feels like every time I investigate something in central London, it leads back to Asif Aziz. Please read this about the Prince Charles Cinema, exclusive deals to import Nestle products to wartorn Angola, and property deals in every corner of the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...

After spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned: 1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself. 2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST. (1/?)

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

Found among the AI projects the UK government is building for civil servants: a tool for automatically redacting documents.

NEW: Now you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools. By @cerealcommas.bsky.social, @natlash.bsky.social & @schwanksta.com

🚨 NEW: Working with the excellent @davidwoode.bsky.social, we looked at knife crime and analysed who are the perpetrators and who are the victims @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Excited to announce the first session of 2025: Electric Dreaming. Folks in London, join us on Jan. 25 for a hands-on creative coding workshop where you'll recreate classical computer artworks and generate prints using a pen plotter. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...

Meta deletes trans and nonbinary Messenger themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed. 🔗 www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Continuing the tradition, I have compiled an end-of-year overview of the soccer analytics content that I liked the most in the past year. The 2024 edition includes pointers to over 160 resources, including research papers, blog posts, articles, podcasts, and books. janvanhaaren.be/posts/soccer...

BLR City Officials: Find details about your local stakeholders and officials from various government departments in Bengaluru 🔗 cityofficials.bengawalk.com

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

City with 0.29 xG from open play and Gary Neville acting like they’ve been unlucky to lose this game 🙄

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Follow @thetimes.com data team! 👇 @venetiamenzies.bsky.social @joeydurso.bsky.social @gwjournalism.bsky.social @matildakdavies.bsky.social @yennahsmart.bsky.social @danatherton.bsky.social @narottam.bsky.social @michael-keith.bsky.social @annadowell.bsky.social @marietamarinova.bsky.social

Briefly checked in to the other place only to see a blue tick getting shilled in my notifications 🤮

I've never heard a co-commentator speak as much tactical nonsense in 15 minutes as Robbie Savage has this evening.

It's one game (it's one game!) but my goodness there's so much work to do

Massive struggle after the early lead. Really lacking ideas in buildup and the inability to create settled play in the opposition third is still a worry.

Well deserved equaliser to be fair

Dream start that

Football team in Manchester with a vacuous midfield that's struggling in defensive transitions is it

Well, I guess the question is who else has access to Elon’s X account?!!

So many more people here now! Re-sharing the incomplete but useful data viz starter pack: go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

Experiments in creating hand-drawn style graphics in JS, with RoughJS and D3. observablehq.com/d/01153746b3...

I absolutely love the nitty-gritty details here

🧵Okay let's do some BTS for Axios' elections #dataviz. 1/5: We used <canvas> for our big maps, which means we had to do some tricks with color hashes to get interactivity. What the reader sees vs. what the computer sees. Details on how it works: observablehq.com/@camargo/can...

Made one for soccer analytics dorks go.bsky.app/Hu8kEtH

That Amorim interview (and Ruud’s games to be fair)

Oh this is great! Been looking for one of these for ages on here.

Ella Brockway, Artur Galocha and Alvaro Valiño combined to explain Trinity Rodman’s ‘Trin Spin’ and I’m all for soccer graphics all the time www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...

A daily game like wordle but for charts www.graphs.world

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

Just set up a new starter pack of political journalists, politicos and commentators to follow on Bluesky go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN

Not a single team in the Premier League with any hopes of getting into the top four plays like this. An entire summer to sort it. Unbelievable.

New air quality stripes! Find your city and see how the air quality has changed over the past 170+ years. www.airqualitystripes.info Built by: Kirsty Pringle & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social

Imane Khelif is the people’s champion.

We're also excited to announce that we won the Excellence in Visual Digital Storytelling, Small Newsroom category with our investigation into alleged domicide in Gaza. We followed one IDF unit's demolitions through social media posts and satellite imagery. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04...

Important work here on the different inflation rates faced by various income cohorts ifs.org.uk/publications...

For The Times, we took a look at some of the interesting numbers underlying the Paris Olympics #olympics www.thetimes.com/sport/olympi...