I’m running a dataviz workshop for beginners this Friday afternoon. If you ever thought about moving into #dataviz this is a good course to start learning the basics! Join online or in-person here: luma.com/36qv52ja

New CCVI (Climate—Conflict—Vulnerability Index) data just dropped → climate-conflict.org And: we have a paper preprint out now! osf.io/preprints/so...

"If only men wield weapons, then all tombs with weapons are male. If only men are ever found interred with weapons, then it’s unlikely women ever wielded them. We only imagine some version of what we’ve seen. It takes a lot of unlearning to learn history." Great guest post from @isabelleroughol.com

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

📊#dataviz Ever wonder how JPEG is able to compress images without much loss in perceptual quality? This blog post by Sophie Wang is filled with interactive demos of the steps. www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

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Sharing a bit of work in progress: This projects takes DJ sets for a walk 🚶‍➡️

I've been cooking. Bon appétit! www.chartography.net/p/the-stereo...

In many parts of the U.S., gun violence is down to pre-pandemic rates. In some places, shootings are at historic lows. In others, the drop is still out of reach. Use our Atlas of American Gun Violence — now updated with all 2025 data — to see how gun violence has marked your corner of the country.

Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.

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Des cartes inspirantes ! Voici des cartes qui utilisent la métaphore du vent pour illustrer la dynamique électorale entre deux dates. La direction et la couleur montrent le changement du vote sur une période donnée, la longueur du trait son intensité. #dataviz #data #cartographie #map #carte

History requires deep, extensive research a lot of that research will end up not being directly relevant. You won't know that until you get in it. Research isn't just pulling a doc with all the answers, it's finding connections, it's understanding what's *not* being said, it's knowing context.

We do not invite the fae into the house and that now includes generative AI. We do not give them our full names and we do not, under any circumstances, make any sort of deal with them.

So much to love in the scrollytelling — the ternary plot, the depth of the data, the findings — but my favourite part is the explanation and the text in general. 📊 Remember, a chart doesn't have to be understood in 3 seconds. It should reward the effort you put into understanding it.

Valentina D'Efilippo www.poppyfield.org vibes too

Just realised what this Trump chart reminds me of

You can serve PMTiles directly from a cloud object storage but sometimes, you want to control who accesses data and how often—and you need a server for that. Craig Kochis wrote examples of how to serve PMTiles using a NodeJS server application. ckochis.com/serve-protom...

Que maravilla...

All projections are "good" and all projections are "bad". Just depends on your map's purpose and audience

NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁

Large language models (LLMs) and AI tools have proven to be very useful for programming, but how do they do when writing D3 code? In this blog post, we explore Claude's ability to create and modify some basic charts from time series data.

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 @propublica.org is hiring a Graphics Editor to help bring our investigations to life through charts, graphs and all manner of visuals. Apply and get all the details, including salary range, here 👇👇

Sunshine Hours vs. Annual Rainfall Across The UK Learn more: moverdb.com/sunshine-hours-...

New video tutorials! You don't need to be a developer to make cool charts — here's how to recreate some of our latest graphics without using any code. pudding.cool/process/no-c...

last spring, after a 2 year pause in client work, I noticed a significant uptick in clients asking for line+bar+pie charts 📈📊 even tho they come to me (I thought) for bespoke #dataviz. I wrote about it here: www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202... fellow #dataviz friends have you experienced the same?

IRE’s Phil Meyer Award recognizes the best use of social science research methods in journalism. This year’s second-place prize went to @alexiafernandezcam.bsky.social, @pratheekrebala.bsky.social, April Simpson, @jlaf.bsky.social, Nadia Hamdan, Cynthia Rodriguez and Roy Hurst: 40acresandalie.com

Once again, the New York Times gives the dataviz community an opportunity to reflect on its purpose. Can everything be quantified and turned into a chart? Most important: what are the consequences of a chart? If words matter, charts matter too.

When we visualize data, we reorganize the world, grouping and degrouping people and things across categories and time. We remove a certain order as much as we create one. 📊

Closeread Prize winners are here! 🏆 Want to create engaging, scroll-based stories with your data? See stunning scrollytelling examples made with Quarto: posit.co/blog/closere... Learn more about Closeread and its power to create dynamic narratives. Congrats winners! #Quarto #RStats #Python

Every industry AI sets its evil eye lasers on says the same thing: we don't lack ideas, thanks, we lack time and money. It's almost like AI was cooked up by people with time and money, but lacking ideas.

On the communication side of dataviz — what would you say, were the "hits" in the last few years? Pieces that went viral, found wide adoption, opened new audiences, were shared a lot.

"…there’s one nut we have not been able to crack: anchoring bespoke data visualization as a full fledged profession in corporate settings." Re-reading this article from 2017 (medium.com/visualizing-...), I wonder — where are we at 8 years on?

Rolling Stone just released their top albums of the 21st Century with Beyonce’s Lemonade at #1. Last year, we looked at what could influence these rankings: popularity, original release medium, streaming availability, and the judge’s gender and age. pudding.cool/2024/03/grea...

"Technical skill will fade as the gatekeeper of complex data visualization. This is a good thing." —@abmakulec.bsky.social & @elijahmeeks.bsky.social (I'm looking forward to 4th wave part 2) nightingaledvs.com/fourth-wave-...

New post: I'm leaving Substack and moving my newsletter to my Open Visualization Academy (openvisualizationacademy.org) theartofinsight.substack.com/p/new-newsle...

A special recruitment for a UWCartLab client project I’m involved in: We are seeking a Co-Designer with a visual or print disability or extensive related experience to creatively explore ways to make geologic maps more accessible (Deadline: Feb 14) home.wgnhs.wisc.edu/hiring-co-de...

My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever... Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.

What are your favourite examples of data visualisation or information design in package design? #dataviz

What better way to spend the holidays than making #maps? Here bauhaus inspired grid map of europe, each country coloured by the first letter of their ISO name. 🔵🟢🟡 Little puzzle to figure out the grid 😅 Initial map made in #python then Figma to edit, code github.com/Lisa-Ho/smal... #dataviz

I've always wanted to visualize rain... For a few months now I've been thinking about making graphs where information is encoded in unusual channels, such as movement... today this came out that looks really cool and brings together those two obsessions... #dataviz #rain www.morlan.mx/motionplot/

The glasses are clinking, the countdown is running, but you’re still thinking about data visualizations? We got you covered with our list of lists of 2024 data vis. Check out personal favorites, portfolios, and award-winning vis from 2024 blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-31-2024/

A few of the maps and graphics I made in 2024. What climate maps do you want to see next year?

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

📣 New paper in Nature Human Behavior @natureportfolio.bsky.social! Using large-scale mobility data, we find how businesses, amenities, and other urban places depend on each other. It reveals connections that aren’t always visible but have substantial economic impacts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@nytimes.com delivered some truly outstanding data / visual stories this year. A big shoutout to their #DataAnalysis and #DataViz teams for setting the bar so high! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you're interested in animating gridded data into discrete bins using webgl feel free to reuse our library: github.com/eurostat/reg... The example shows a population grid of Europe being rolled out, and then groups the cells according to their populations. #stats #webgl #cartography

Looking for a freelance motion graphics / video person for projects in Feb & Mar 25. Mostly animated infographics & some visual narratives. Like to do some tests and prototypes before then. Drop us your CV and reel https://informationisbeautiful.net/contact (remote, any timezone +/- 8h from UK)

#GEOVIZ is a JavaScript library for designing zoomable and interactive thematic maps. 👉 github: github.com/riatelab/geo... 👉 doc: riatelab.github.io/geoviz/ 👉 live examples: observablehq.com/@neocartocnr... Work in progress. Contributions are welcome 👋