Heading into the @datawrapper.de DataViz Book Club notes. If you have any questions about CHART, feel free to join and post them there in the next 30-45mins :) notes.dw.tools/p/chart

🎉 Today's the day! We are finally discussing "CHART" by @nadiehbremer.com! You can join us here at 4pm UTC: notes.dw.tools/p/chart 👉 Find more info on our blog: www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-n...

The DataViz Book Club will be discussing my book CHART on Monday! 🙌 In written-only style, so you can discuss at your own pace ^_^ I'll be there as well toward the end to answer any questions posted. Come join me! 😃 www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-n... 📅 Monday, August 18th at 6pm CEST/noon ET

Looking forward to discussing CHART in the upcoming DataVis Book Club on August 18th! ^_^

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: When does a Chart become Art? @nadiehbremer.com's book is a beautifully documented invitation to data visualisers new and experienced alike to follow her into creative areas where she has been the first to tread. questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/03/w...

📚 Ready for the next book club discussion? We are! 📆 On August 18th at 4pm UTC, we’ll be diving into "CHART" by @nadiehbremer.com. Join us here on this notepad: notes.dw.tools/p/chart All the details for this session 👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-n...

Enjoying @nadiehbremer.com's CHART (and the sun 😁). It's a great book — Nadieh's work is amazing anyways, and I love how generously she shares her tricks and recipes. www.routledge.com/CHART-Design...

Honored to get such a joyful reaction from @tulpinteractive.com about receiving my new book, especially as I name him as one of my main sources of inspiration at the start of the book 😊

Congrats to @nadiehbremer.com on her successful launch at Outlier yesterday! I can't wait to see more people fall in love with this book. From seeing the mock ups to holding it in my hand, I don't think this book could have come out any more beautiful.

I just had my virtual book launch for CHART at Outlier!! ✨😃 (together with @datacitron.bsky.social who did the whole layout design)

ICYMI but "CHART: Designing Creative Data Visualizations from Charts to Art" is officially released and I'm having a virtual launch party tomorrow at Outlier conference 🎉 Come join me tomorrow at June 11th, at 09:30 PST / 12:30PM EDT / 18:30 CEST! 😃 🧵👇

📣 NEW WORK! Making the invisible visible. I'm thrilled to share the data art system I created for the Environmental Defense Fund that reveals how much methane was added to the atmosphere for each year that you've been alive. Create your personal Methane circle: timeforch4nge.org/methane-circ...

It’s #TimeForCH4nge ✨ Excited to speak at the launch of the European Civil Society Observatory on Methane on 7 April and show you the new data art system I created! Exploring how data, science & art can drive action to cut methane & slow #GlobalWarming 🔗 Register timeforch4nge.splashthat.com

NEW WORK! ✨ I got to create this 2-page spread for an article in @sciam.bsky.social on the puzzling lack of worlds outside our solar system in a certain size range; the "Radius Gap." Visualizing several hundred exoplanets as a polar plot + contours. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...

It's apparently been over a year, but I just published a newsletter again! Read about several of the new projects I've released since then (and then there's the new book of course, minor thing ;) ) open.substack.com/pub/visualci...

Later today I'll be pushing out the latest monthly newsletter to subscribers with 50 of the best data viz related things I encountered during January. (And so there's still time to subscribe: visualisingdata.com/newsletter/)

Working on a new project where I want to take these rings and make them flow together a bit as if each ring is made from gas & interacts (along its edges) with the next ring(s) Now starting an hour-long Fluid Simulation video by The Coding Train 😃💪 Any info is appreciated! 🙏

It's been a _very_ long time, but I finally wrote an extensive full dataviz design creation blog post again! 🙌 You can read about all the ups and downs, what worked, when it spectacularly failed, of trying to create the GitHub Top Contributor Network here: www.visualcinnamon.com/2025/01/gith...

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.

📣 NEW WORK - Part II! 📣 Another GitHub-focused visualization. This time revealing the top contributors to any repository and the other projects they’ve worked on, highlighting synergies across repos: nbremer.github.io/ORCA/top-con... 🧵👇

My latest project lets you explore the entire commit history of any GitHub repo ✨ Obviously, D3.js was one of the 1st repos I tested. You can clearly see the 3000+ commits made by its creator @ocks.org! But also @fil.rezo.net & many others. nbremer.github.io/ORCA/commit-...

📣 NEW WORK 📣 nbremer.github.io/ORCA/commit-... I worked with Mozilla Builders and created 2 interactive visuals around GitHub repositories and the contributors who are working hard to improve these projects. This 1st visual reveals the entire commit history, clustered per month.

The DVS Readers' Club (written) chat about @shirleywu.studio and my book "Data Sketches" has just started! eventbrite.com/e/dvs-reader... Come join the discussion! ^_^

Wishing everyone a great start to 2025. Let's kick things off with another inspiring interview! Award-winning data visualisation designer @nadiehbremer.com gives us an exclusive look into her process, what tools she uses, and specifics of some her stunning projects: pixelpioneers.co/blog/designi...

📣 NEW WORK! I just added my latest project to my portfolio 🙌 I got to create a data art collection of six pieces for the "Global Diet Quality Score" report published by Intake; a main piece and five chapter covers, using data on what people ate during a day www.visualcinnamon.com/art/gdqs/

For some Friday fun, a mesmerizing video breaking down the most iconic music samples between 1990-2024. The (data) animations visualizing exactly what is done to each sample (speed, pitch, etc.) are very well executed Check out 1999 (±9:00) for a 🤯 moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpao...

The final result of the week I gave myself to learn and create a data visualization using Blender. The visual shows the top 10 best-selling Nintendo Switch games according to release data, scaled by the number of copies sold (by 2D area as seen from top down), and "colored" by genre.

This was not what I was going for while working on a data art collection. But I saved the code in my pen plotting folder instead to try it out in the future! 😆

I was extremely happy to hear back from a client a year after I created 2 extensive animations to learn that they're still using them across the company in their pursuit of expanding solar panels! ✨ You can see larger 📷 from both animations in my portfolio: www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/sw...

Loved the little deep dive into the career of Bob Chapin, TIME's chief cartographer during some pivotal moments in the previous century in @infowetrust.com "Chartography" newsletter: charts.substack.com/p/accent-the...

📣 NEW PROJECT! I got to create this interactive #dataviz for the new "Charter for Safeguarding Sites" of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Revealing which historic sites are facing what threats and what possible solutions could help holocaustremembrance.com/resources/ih...

Very excited to share that today, I signed a contract to write a second book! ✨😮 Sharing my lessons on how to add more creativity to a dataviz, from a pure chart all the way to data art. I need a different title than "Amidst the Visualization and Art of Data" though 😅 If anyone has suggestions ;)

I hope someone is having a white Christmas ❄️ If you'd like to see how often some capital and/or well-known cities in the Northern Hemisphere have had snow on this day in the past 50 years, check out the Christmas card I made ^_^ nbremer.github.io/christmas-ca... Merry Christmas! 🎅

I just sent out my short bi/tri-yearly newsletter 💌 Sharing the new dataviz Christmas card I created looking into snow on Christmas Day ☃️, astronomy data art for SciAm, jigsaw puzzles, and 3D bar charts (😱) You can read it here: visualcinnamon.substack.com/p/2023-q4-ne...

If you are still looking for a unique gift for the holiday season, then perhaps one of my dataviz / data art Giclee prints might be of interest ^_^ From visualizing π, to revealing cultural constellation diversity, star maps, butterflies, spirographs & more ✨ 👉 shop.visualcinnamon.com

I would love to hear which typeface foundries you really like (that are affordable for a freelancer)! My go-to right now is Atipo Foundry (www.atipofoundry.com), but I would love to expand my list of foundries to check out for the "perfect" font ^_^

Discovered the wonderful world of Ploterre and their data art posters (Riso, Silkscreen, etc.) ploterre.com Working with some bird data right now, and I wish I had come up with the idea of using a feather shape to show changes in bird populations ✨ Thanks to @revdancatt.com for the tip!

Pale Blue Dot: Visualization Challenge

I got to create the data viz / art for the article on "25 years since Dark Energy's discovery" in the December issue of @sciam.bsky.social ✨ Using ±1.6 million dots to represent objects (almost all entire galaxies!) from the DESI Early Data Release. 👉 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Save the date for outlier conference! June 12-14, 2024 | Chicago USA Chicago is very lovely in June so that’s just an extra bonus.

Can't wait to get my own copy of this book! Where my "Elemental Flows" collection has the honor to grace the front cover ✨❤️

Went to the "Mapping Modernity" exhibit yesterday, an amazing collection of 250 maps (from a multi-thousand maps private collection) Stayed for several hours being amazed at all the details. From maps about nature, economies,...

Just received a copy of the wonderful Transhelvetica magazine (about travel culture) that includes a (slightly adjusted) version of the giant 2x3 meter large data art piece I made for Swissgrid about the entire electrical power flow in their grid during 2019 🤩

A sneak peek (with labels removed) from a dataviz project that is close to the finish line, that I'm very excited about! Can't wait to share more info about this interactive visual and its applications ^_^

Very happy that my entries to the "Information is Beautiful Awards" have been longlisted! ✨ "The Essence of Us" a data art piece with exoplanets that asks "what is human culture?" "Charting our Adventures" a custom (data) map of the Lofoten & Senja Wish them luck for the next round ^^

Started working on some network dataviz again! (very early work-in-progress)

Art Train choo-choo! 🚆 (thank you for the nomination @unamandita.bsky.social 🙏) Nominating / tagging @do.minik.us and @tiziana.bsky.social for the next round ^_^ Where are the other dataviz folk at here?

You can now watch my brand-new dataviz talk, "Amidst the Visualization and Art of Data", given at Outlier Conference last May, online ✨ Where I share my techniques for being more creative with dataviz, from the line charts all the way to data art 👩‍🎨 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWiy1hSEDls

All of these 6 look really intriguing and beautiful in their own right. Love how they all have such a different vibe and approach, it actually makes it all fit together somehow

Of all 144 of my "wavʌves" this one from set #82 immediately stood out to me as the most unique one Collecting your own N=12 set starts tomorrow on https://feralfile.com/exhibitions/featured ^_^