"The Increased Price of Foreign Goods, Due to the Tariff, Goes Directly into the Public Treasury. The Increased Price of Home Goods, Due to the Tariff on Foreign Goods, Goes into Private Pockets." 1922 archive.org/details/cu31...

brightness, luster, radiance, splendor, and glory www.chartography.net/p/clarity-un...

In the face of everything happening, it often feels pointless to spend hours figuring out how to draw the landscape of a planet with twin stars, but I’m reminded of the importance of making our art in dark times, & that what I’m up to here is intended to be a reminder of where it is we all come from

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!) #Nostos #Unflattening 2

I'm getting faster at making these. (Please note that this is sped up somewhat.) 3dartmaps.etsy.com/listing/4300...

Favorite map of the trip … thus far. Dish with a Map of Japan 1830-44 Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration @ Philadelphia Museum of Art

pareidolia

charts project2025.observer/en

... as part of work on this essay I used ChatGPT to explore concepts of TIMOR DOMINI—the fear of god, vigilant awe made visible. They didn't make the cut, but I still like both:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Medieva... Wikimedia gallery of #medieval #dataviz !!!!!

brightness, luster, radiance, splendor, and glory www.chartography.net/p/clarity-un...

San Francisco: la grille sur les collines!

Original essay coming to chartography.net tomorrow. My most original writing since INFO WE TRUST. I've been working on it since June and look forward to your reception.

Want to vicariously float down the Blackstone River? Check out the new 360 degree Google-style streetview imagery the Friends of the Blackstone River collected this weekend using my camera and Mapillary! All new opensource imagery of the river for everyone! www.mapillary.com/app/user/the...

I just published a new installment of A Gentle Introduction to GDAL. It’s about visualizing time series data & automating tedious processing chains with shell scripting. No experience needed. #cartography #maps #dataviz medium.com/@robsimmon/a...

A (perhaps) final installment in the series tshirts Nick wears to teach in related to his courses - a sweet corner box once again via @droog811.bsky.social - a fun one!

Congratulations @nigelblue.bsky.social on your joyful new book!

Honored to launch the world’s first MPS in Data Visualization & Communication at SVA NYC—10 months focused on design, data, & communication. Seeking innovators and revolutionaries! for Sept 2026. Learn more/apply: sva.edu/mpsdataviz

Unhedged chart of the week; Pity the poor Fed via @hakyungkim.bsky.social Sign up for COTW here: ep.ft.com/newsletters/...

Time to break out the chart

A Cartographic Tour of Gold Country. Inspired by a trip to the Sierra Foothills, I made a map of the Mother Lode, paired with some vintage maps highlighting different types of mines. 🗺️ #cartography #mapping pixeum.org/exhibits/715...

Signed! Thank you @rsimmon.bsky.social !

#KPopDemonHunters #PopVsSoda

For more than a decade, Claire Rosen has sought out chattering macaws, cockatoos with fluffy, blush-colored plumage, and ornery owls, which she pairs with ornately patterned papers and textiles. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/clai...

"Examination of homicide offender records in Alabama found a relationship between the race of the offender and the time of death of the victim." -Hanke and Gundlach more: charts.substack.com/p/gladwell-s...

what 11:30 AM looked like in Dogpatch SF

There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️ I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

from: datavandals.com/radical-times! Photos by Violetta Wakolbinger

On a wall outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, a new Banksy piece appeared this morning before being covered up within hours. The work depicts a judge in traditional robes beating a protester with a gavel. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/bank...

“Why not paintings or sculpture or other persuasive visual images, or persuasion by the written word alone? … A map is different from other forms of communication because it is uniquely presumed to be a source of honest, objective information.” persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/about/

THE SUMMER OF CLARITY marches on! www.chartography.net/p/factual-ph...

Today in Tshirts Nick wears to tie into content in his comics class, an old favorite, gifted to me by my first crop of students here at SFState - with great appreciation for @scottmccloud.bsky.social! (And yes, today we dive into Understanding Comics!)

So hot right now, Nick Malyon ➛ https://is.gd/drSyJr ★ via

"Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print" curated by Tiffany E. Barber opens soon in NYC: www.printcenternewyork.org/data-conscio...

This is how you display the total and the split by sex, not using a bar chart with three series. Eurostat is improving.

For everyone who designs for money: open.spotify.com/track/4DbBOl...

📊 #dataviz #history @infowetrust.com knocks it out of the park again with this piece on Georg von Mayr's 1877 Die Gesetzmäßigkeit im Gesellschaftsleben [The laws of social life] This has indeed been a Summer of Clarity in the history of data visualization. www.chartography.net/p/factual-ph...

NEW: Labor Day is the end of summer (in the cinema box office) This summer at the movies was the worst $$ since 1981, adjusting for inflation & excluding the Covid period, when many theaters were closed Story by @theancientqueen.bsky.social & me - 🎁 LINK nyti.ms/42ap6ly

THE SUMMER OF CLARITY marches on! www.chartography.net/p/factual-ph...

some of the contributors to my book are getting their copies already…and i haven’t seen it yet! rowland did a beautiful website for it: www.letsgetinfografit.com have a look!

"The digital discourse about clarity is all wrong, and I look forward to setting things right." Coming soon to chartography.net

"We visited the tributaries of the Schuylkill River and collected water from each waterway— bringing carefully labeled buckets back to the studio to fill hundreds of small glass vials." —Stacy Levy mailchi.mp/cdf9421cbab0...

"We visited the tributaries of the Schuylkill River and collected water from each waterway— bringing carefully labeled buckets back to the studio to fill hundreds of small glass vials." —Stacy Levy mailchi.mp/cdf9421cbab0...

📊#dataviz #history Minard & Hannibal: This image helps to understand why CJ Minard juxtaposed his famous flow map of Napoleon's 1815 Moscow campaign w/ a similar map of Hannibal's campaign across France, across the Alps into Italy. Both the Napoleon & Hannibal graphics were anti-war statements

This is my timeline—show me yours. www.chartography.net/p/seeing-cen...

The #NYCsubway is a vital system! This colorful @newyorker.com cover cartoon by Roz Chast highlights the bewildering intensity of #NYC and public transit. Join Chast and cartoonist @ellisjrosen.bsky.social in conversation with #NYTransitMuseum Curator Jodi Shapiro on Thursday, September 11 at 6PM.