Fantastic write-up about data visualization issues such as clarity, accessibility, using descriptive text, and more with great examples from @ourworldindata.org by Saloni (@scientificdiscovery.dev). Great place to start for data visualization enthusiasts and students. 👏

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

YOU, or someone talented you know, could be the next @upshot.nytimes.com fellow. It’s a paid, full-time, one-year job working on the staff of (dare I say) the coolest desk in the newsroom. But hurry — applications close on Wednesday, so apply now and/or share with friends!

🗺️ The true size of the world's countries. 👉 The widely used Mercator projection distorts their size.

#IEEEVIS - we’re hiring @ City St George’s, University of London. Does this sound like you? bit.ly/3WEYlmm It's a permanent (tenured) position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPC906/l... Join us @ giCentre & be part of our amazing new ... Data Visualization Doctoral Training Centre: bit.ly/diverseCDT25...

Teaching data visualization? Our research reveals that students need more support with procedural knowledge (tracing polylines, mapping colors to polylines) when learning Parallel Coordinates Plots. The Anderson & Krathwohl taxonomy helped us pinpoint exactly where interventions should focus.

This graph that the @economist.com is boosting on Facebook is irresponsible. Titles create powerful frames in the way people interpret data (see: Kong et al 2019, www.hidykong.com/papers/Kong-...). This one tells a story that doesn't exist in the charted data.

Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... [Short thread]

The CS dept at USF is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor. The job is perfect for an individual who enjoys teaching small classes (25-30), mentoring students on research projects, & working in a truly diverse department in an urban setting. Apply at usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu....

AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊 Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group! Internships in Story, Ideation, Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks), Prototyping (3D printing etc), Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!) Physical (springs and spinny things) Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.

Finally, someone is saying this out loud!!! “Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' How's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future & you have no one that has built up/learned anything?" finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

This data-driven story - "How F1 has evolved since 1950" from @espn.com Creative Studio uses horizontal, vertical, and even diagonal scrollytelling. The hand-drawn illustrations & visuals are spectacular! 🤩https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026

This is why I get annoyed when people say AI will help identify struggling college students. In every big lecture I teach, at least one or two students fail because they never show up or turn in any work—despite weekly emails from me and TAs. We don’t need AI. We need more humans to support them.

📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹! MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics 👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado... ⏰ Deadline: Aug 1

strong cosign dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media. It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.

so many cool accessibility features for your Apple devices were just announced! … accessibility continues to lead in imagining new ways to use your devices, sensors, and machine learning to make the world more accessible www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

Hey RSA... get ready for my keynote on why cyber threats aren't just a national issue — they're personal. Catch it tomorrow at 11:35am, Moscone West. I take this stuff seriously — because it affects all of us. #Take9 #RSAC #CyberCivilDefense

Come be my neighbor in the SF bureau!

While I am disappointed to see classic data-driven stories disappearing due to bit rot, I am thankful to bluesky for being able to see the amazing stories/work of @attilabatorfy.bsky.social, @alexselbyb.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @patrickstotz.bsky.social, @higsch.com, and more!! 🙏

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) 🎁

When used carelessly, animation can distract from data visualizations. Check out these best practices for delivering better animations in data visualizations.

Thank you, Ilja @fubits.dev for talking to my Data Visualization class today about your amazing work with non-profits and sharing your insights. The projects you shared along with the little tips to make certain transitions work were fantastic! 📊

The "Interactive Dynamics For Visual Analysis" paper by @jheer.org and @benbendc.bsky.social is such an exquisitely written overview of datavis interaction paradigms. Great paper to introduce students to the various aspects of interaction in data visualization. Link: cacm.acm.org/practice/int... 📊

Hello 👋, I'm looking for invited speakers (remote) for my Data Visualization course that meets from 8am-9:45am PDT on Tu/ Th. Any data journalists, visualization practitioners, data visualization designers interested in a short (~25-30 minute) talk on one of your projects in my class? Thanks! 📊

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚡ Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

Hello 👋, I'm looking for invited speakers (remote) for my Data Visualization course that meets from 8am-9:45am PDT on Tu/ Th. Any data journalists, visualization practitioners, data visualization designers interested in a short (~25-30 minute) talk on one of your projects in my class? Thanks! 📊

📊 How well does AI really understand data visualization? Michael Friendly puts Claude 3 Haiku to the test in a fascinating experiment on graph interpretation, design choices, and the limits of machine learning. nightingaledvs.com/what-does-ai...

Discovered some data visualization podcasts after listening to Kevin's @kevinwee.bsky.social interview on Jon Schwabish's podcast. Kevin's engaging, interactive dashboard of data related podcasts is at public.tableau.com/app/profile/.... Found "Data + Love" and "The Art of Communicating Data".

It has been amazing to join USF's three-day Moment to Movement (M2M) workshop! The workshop advances anti-racist practices by addressing critical teaching needs, institutional barriers, & effective pedagogical strategies for creating equitable classrooms. Organized by @sjengle.bsky.social et al. 🙏

Here is a summary of @craignewmark.bsky.social donations to Women and Military Veterans in Tech at the University of San Francisco www.linkedin.com/pulse/2024-s...

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

Are you thinking about doing a PhD in visualization? There are a bunch of great people hiring students to start next year (academic year 24-25)!! Across a bunch of different exciting topics and places! It's an exciting time!! vis-phd-positions.netlify.app

papers for the CG&A Special Issue on Critical Data Visualization are due Oct 31! we're super excited about all the interesting, thought-provoking papers it will include www.computer.org/digital-libr... Editor Team: @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social , Nicole Hengesbach, Georgia Panagiotidou, and Miriah Meyer

Interesting paper from Chang Han & @kisaacs.bsky.social -"A Deixis-Centered Approach for Documenting Remote Synchronous Communication around Data Visualizations". They created a framework to capture interactive gestures in collaborative data-exploration meetings. #ieeevis 👏 arxiv.org/abs/2408.04041

Hello, Bluesky! Excited to see our paper on Attention-Aware Visualizations (AAVs) being presented at the #ieeevis 2024 conference tomorrow! With Arvind Srinivasan, Johannes Ellemose, Peter Butcher, Panos D. Ritsos. Check out Arvind's blog post: arvindcheenu.medium.com/when-data-pa...

Yesterday, we presented our work on barriers students face when they learn about parallel coordinates plots at the IEEE EduVis Workshop. We identified 12 barriers for PCP literacy related to reading, understanding, and constructing a PCP.

This is for a niche crowd, but if you need to draw Trees in LaTeX the 'forest' package is wonderful and very easy to use. 🌴

This evening, members of the core committee, VEC, and IEEE met with the TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel manager for an update on the status of the damages. Unfortunately, the damages are significant enough that we will be unable to hold IEEE VIS 2024 on their property.

Are you interested in a data viz PhD in academia? 📊@mcnuttandrew.bsky.social put together this website to get an overview: vis-phd-positions.netlify.app

Hey y'all, The USPS is shipping out free Covid tests again. We are in the midst of a Covid surge, so get yours today! special.usps.com/testkits

📊 Read the curated materials about accessibility, and join us for a lively discussion about this fundamental topic in data visualization on Sep 28. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/dvs-reader...

"The 2024 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey is live through September 28! Whether you’re a hobbyist or employee, make data viz with code or pen & paper, we welcome all responses!" - Please take the survey. It only takes a few minutes! 📊 Click here - www.surveyhero.com/c/soti202-bsky