Last week I had the honour of giving the keynote speech for the last day of #VIZBI (visualizing biology) in Cambridge, UK. The topic of my talk was "Seeing things differently" in which I showed and explained various concepts of #frameshift design. vizbi.org/Videos/57391... (you must register/pay)

@shirleywu.studio @nadiehbremer.com @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social @tulpinteractive.com @laesser.bsky.social @visualisingdata.com

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

Encountered a Norman door #affordances (handle suggest pulling, but should be pushed to open...)

The very first Three.js Conference is happening and we’re proud to support it as official sponsors 💙 Huge respect to David Ronai (@Makio64) for organizing it all, and to Hervé Studio for bringing threejs.paris to life. Go behind the scenes 👇 tympanus.net/codrops/?p=1...

Huge congrats @ocks.org @jasondavies.com I'm honored that I've been using it from the start, and even slightly before it's official release 😁

We visualize the Olympic medal count as Norwegian-style scarf. :) 📊 Check out how Germany looks like and generate your own scarf – including download of the knitting pattern.

Hey @stamen.com is Oakland Crime Spotting still running somewhere? stamen.com/oakland-crim... It's one of my all time favourite projects, both the #dataviz and the story behind it. I wanted to re-visit it but it seems offline?

Working on a hero component for the homepage of #Frameshift Design #wip

Love these maps of online communities, and this one is done particularly well.

After what looked a really successful event in 2025, VizChitra 2026 - India's premier Data Viz conference - is taking place again in July 2026 and there is just one week left to submit proposals for talks, dialogues, workshops, or exhibitions. Visit vizchitra.com/2026 to find out more!

You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...

Magnetosphere 2.0 dev/design update. 60fps, 3440x1440 output (resized for social posts), 1,000,000+ particles, audio reactive. #touchdesigner #raye #audioreactive #generative #flocking Audio: RAYE - "WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!"

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

Huge congrats, Alberto!!!

Check this out!!!

I have registered an additional business name: Frameshift Design. I'm working on my next step in my business: radical communication solutions. I will be helping science and social organizations tell their most important stories in a radically different way, so they can make the impact they deserve.

I made a thing

/cc @jerthorp.bsky.social

There are countless websites that generate color palettes, but I needed a reusable package for my own apps. So I built dittoTones. 🟣 It mimics the perceptual DNA (Lightness/Chroma curves) of popular systems and blends them with your target hue → meodai.github.io/dittoTones/

I must say, vive coding can produce workable code, but it also turns quite a bit into a patchwork of working parts, because AI misses the overall intention/structure....

INGRAPHICS is a „magazine for visual thinkers“ — and I was kindly invited to contribute a double spread. I created a visual overview of the long history of Elon Musk‘s not-quite-materialized predictions on autonomous cars 🤖🚙 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...)

Launching Frameshift Design workshops - teaching teams to generate breakthrough ideas. Q1 2026 pilot spots available. Interested? DM me. #frameshift #workshop

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/

Launching Frameshift Design workshops - teaching teams to generate breakthrough ideas. Q1 2026 pilot spots available. Interested? DM me. #frameshift #workshop

Look how butter smooth this infinite timeline zooms in and out! I am currently building the prototype of Timebender, a scheduling tool that adapts your plan in real-time. Change one thing, everything updates instantly. I am collecting early interest: timebender.io Sign up and spread the word!

Envisioning Intelligence, a unique 24H online event hosted by the Places & Spaces exhibit team with presentations on visualising various topics #dataviz Presenters include the amazing @moebio.bsky.social and @kimay.bsky.social Check it out: cns-iu.github.io/workshops/20... #macroscope

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

I am very much enjoying the Advent of #Svelte this year! Great tips and suggestions. Highly recommended to check out!

I'm building Timebender — a planning tool where your schedule adapts instantly to every change. No AI guessing, just smart constraints and real-time feedback. Early prototype phase. Join the list: timebender.io Spread the word if you know someone drowning in calendar chaos 🚀

I'm building Timebender — a planning tool where your schedule adapts instantly to every change. No AI guessing, just smart constraints and real-time feedback. Early prototype phase. Join the list: timebender.io Spread the word if you know someone drowning in calendar chaos 🚀

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

We just shipped a desktop version of Rowboat that runs fully offline: rowboat.net It's silly fast, the app loads almost instantly, and you can plunk a multiple gigabyte dataset into it and it just starts spilling out answers. Lots more in the pipeline; try it out and send us your feedback!

article in @bigthink.com about #macroscopes / #dataviz bigthink.com/hard-science... including my star mapper project for @esa.int

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

Unfortunately I couldn't make it to www.informationdesigncon.eu #IC25 Enjoy @albertocairo.com @angela-morelli.bsky.social @nadiehbremer.com and others! I hope to see you next time!

Light speed is fast, but space is vast...

Population changes in Puerto Rico 1950-2100 (animation).

We used @sciam.bsky.social's 180th anniversary as an excuse to revisit an old favorite. Familiar with the efficiency of locomotion chart from the March 1973 issue? Here it is again, reimagined for 2025 by DTAN Studio, w/text by @parshallison.bsky.social 📊 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

WOW! Such an extensive #explorable #explanation by Bartosz Ciechanowski about the #moon 🌙 ciechanow.ski Amazing!!

🧠 Why do our brains absorb data better when it is visually pleasing? Earlier this year, at our #EUOpenDataDays, @tulpinteractive.com showed us how visual design shapes the way we perceive data. Watch the full session 👉 bit.ly/48daAxe #EUOpenData

Great original idea!!!

As I turn half a century old, I'm v happy to share a new touchdesigner tutorial. Recreating one of my old works Webcam Piano. Motion detection with frame differencing, MIDI, POPs, Python, GLSL and more. Also shout out to David Rokeby!👋 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHf...

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

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.

Will I see you at Amsterdam Data Design Den #2? #ADDD I'm attending, spoke at the 1st edition myself. Highly recommended! luma.com/jxz7z65f

Working on the concept for a talk now, and even though chatGPT helps me, I would never let chatGPT write a full talk concept because it's simply not the quality level, not enough eye for detail and overall consistency that I would require. Just so you know ;-)

My most popular interactive @observablehq.com notebook, Math for Journalists, just got a fresh update! 🧑‍🎓 👉 Sample size and confidence: I explain how sample sizes work, like in a survey. 👉 Tests for statistical significance: I break down what "statistically significant" means. Link in comments! 👇

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