A kick-ass chart by Matt McLean in @sondreus.bsky.social's fantastic retrospective of 250 years of American power www.economist.com/interactive/...

Who wears lipstick? An April 1944 ISOTYPE-like graph by Jean-Andre Sainte-Laguë(1882-1950) in Science et Vie. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3...

Striking charts in this week's Briefing on AI models' values www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Accompanying music inspired by György Ligeti’s Artikulation:

Directions may beat a map at getting me there. A feed knows my interests better than a newspaper. An AI answer is faster than a book. Convenience excels at narrow efficiency. Good friction asks what the whole life requires. My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/good-frict...

“Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which ...” www.msn.com/en-us/music/...

Here is the F version. cc @infowetrust.com

welcome home!

welcome home!

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

from the mouths of babes

Just found this intriguing new function by Wadea Abu Dahoud for making a log-scale axis squiggly, mostly to act as a visual cue/speed bump that the axis isn't linear. github.com/wade31985-ar... #rstats #dataviz

Inequality is hard to portray in a broad objective way because what money means is always shifting (inflation, purchasing power, etc). Effects like inequality of health outcomes can help, but it piles abstraction upon abstraction. www.chartography.net/p/the-geomet...

All four FUTURE BOOKS, featuring classic Isotype information graphics, are live at isotype.infowetrust.com — now 153 total figures sortable by dimensions I care about.

Enjoyed this. www.chartography.net/p/a-voyage-i...

Excited to visit new Centre for Illustration on the next London trip. Proud that VisionaryPress.com books are part of their collection.

“This map was not an image. It was an event.”—my latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-voyage-i...

wow!

New Chartography.net thudpost tomorrow early, all spirits willing. It's a beauty.

New product shots, with aesthetically sympathetic accoutrements www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533, 📸 by @jp_lavs

submitted!

Physical media! Now I know why shipping was so expensive. Damn Playfair, I did not know you went so hard! (The charts fold out and are even bigger.)

collection visitor contributed this postcard cute-angle view of SF bay

The first phase of digitizing my collection has come to an end. I am very grateful to my students, they did a wonderful job! The result: three massive Hungarian statistical atlases that are unavailable anywhere else, and dozens of data graphics that have never been digitized before. To be continued!

Amphora diversity—of shape and use—over time in Mediterranean trade during the Roman era. (Bevan, Andrew. “Mediterranean Containerization.” Current Anthropology 55, no. 4 (2014): 387–418. doi.org/10.1086/6770...)

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Happy Mortar's Day to all who celebrate... Shocking pink mortar from a c. 1505 munitions manuscript at the Yale Center for British Art! collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma...

Divorce, by occupations: flowingdata.com/2026/05/07/d... Actuaries, professional estimators of risk and very on brand, are the outlier with the lowest rate.

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...

Some Pier 39 snaps while on Chonkers watch for @sfchronicle.com 🦭

I am team Lajos Illyefalvi www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

I'll come back to the 10 topical chapters and their key messages later, you can find some of these highlighted in this post on the World Bank Data Blog: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/... Bottom line: the speed of global progress has slowed down, and is now at its slowest pace in 75 years 3/n

One of my customers, Miya Frohmeier, took a picture of me with her vintage camera. She just got the film developed.

Day 126 of #365DaysOfMaps. May 6th is World Carnivorous Plant Day. So it's a silly one from me today though you might look at it as a visual metaphor for a lot going on right now. Carnivorous World (126/365) mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/05/worl...

now THAT's a book cover

Forget Trump. This made me cry a bit. The good of America will win.

“The wayfinder does not separate the stars from the currents from the canoe from themselves. They are a single field of orientation. And when the navigator wants to know how high a star is … they do not reach for an instrument. They extend their own arm.” open.substack.com/pub/seanstev...

At the conclusion of my first year of teaching with the Type West program at @letterformarchive.org, the class of 2019 produced this picture – which I still think is amazing. typewest2019.com/about/

#statsmeme Greeks & shields

Sorry, here I am with more Boston in 50 Maps promo! This was a simple map, but nevertheless it was one of my favorites: a map of the places and events in Make Way For Ducklings. The story seems to take place in a Boston that always was and always will be, so it just seemed like an essential map.

I 3D-printed a Cheysson-style map of France showing the modal number of salutatory cheek-kisses in each department. It took ages. 3dartmaps.etsy.com/listing/4490...

And hey, I’ve made a billboard before as it turns out, prominent on Woodward Ave for half a year! An anti-auto and not coincidentally anti-conformity message that I reworked many years later for the opening to Unflattening! Would love to do something similar here… spinweaveandcut.com/slow-streets...

Ozzy's crazy touring train. A map on vinyl.

Lot of circles this week