Die ständigen Spar- und Kürzungsdebatten führen wir übrigens nur, weil sich unsere Regierung weigert, fossile Subventionen abzubauen, Finanzkriminalität konsequent zu bekämpfen und Steuerprivilegien für Superreiche abzuschaffen. Das kann man nicht oft genug wiederholen.

If you like short, on-point interviews, this might be of interest :D

What are your favorite examples for people using #datavis to tell about aspects/parts/events of their lives?

In Germany, booking a doctor appointment is monopolised by a company which suffered data leaks, didn’t have 2FA, and got caught harvesting data. Really cool to learn about a 1) open-source 2) Svelte / SvelteKit-based alternative! Kudos to the Prototype fund! github.com/open-recepti...

Nice work and good to see @protomaps.com finding adoption in major news outlets!

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!

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

All roads lead to Rome? Well, here’s a map to check that saying. #30DayMapChallenge | Day 11 - Minimal map #rstats #ggplot2

One more #GovDesign #DesignJob: @sprind-de.bsky.social is looking for a #ux/ #uiDesign​er to assist with the EU Digital Identity wallet. The role is remote, full-time, and as soon as possible. Initially it’s limited until December 2026. 👉🏻 verwaltungsgestaltung.de/#positionen

This research from @arvind.bsky.social's lab is right down my alley, in terms of exploring the medium of data visualization, and what happens between the lines: "Visualization Vibes: The Socio-Indexical Function of Visualization Design" vis.csail.mit.edu/pubs/quantif...

The eplusm scale is an interesting take on the old log-scale chestnut. It is logarithmic for the landmark steps (1, 10, 100), but linear in between. Crazy idea, but according to user studies, it seems to work pretty well in some settings! github.com/jdfekete/d3-...

xcoax.org sounds like a fun conference between art / design and academia — thanks to @kimay.bsky.social for the tip!

From the Department of Interesting Datasets: "Welcome to The DreamBank, a collection of over 20,000 dream reports." dreambank.net

A pretty entertaining gallery of misleading visualizations + discussion www.vislies.org/2024/gallery/ (already a year old, but I only discovered it through this year's VIS conference)

#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...

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

🚨 Wir schreiben den 1. Marie Neurath Preis für Datenvisualisierung aus! Alle Infos hier: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/neurath Prämiert werden 3 Visualisierungen mit Fokus auf Verteilungsfragen. Wir freuen uns auf viele Einreichungen!

Interesting analysis outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...

🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows? I'm recruiting PhDs to work on: 🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration 🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition 🔎 Interpretability 💬 LLMs in behavioral science

We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration This is what I explore here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ugly but interesting

Looking forward to a week in Vienna at #ieeevis — and especially to presenting a keynote at the VisComm workshop on Sunday! www.viscomm.io See you there?

I have some space for commissions, consulting, custom workshops and other imaginative engagements in November. If you're looking to get some puzzle pieces placed between now and the end of the year, let me know...?

A quick blog for y'all, because it feels important to nip this one early: NO, this chart DOESN'T show a European solar voltage apocalypse Spoiler: it is almost entirely down to Sweden's grid operator upgrading detection software All the dirty details here: ketanjoshi.co/2025/10/29/c...

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Bärbel Bas: "Wer mitmacht, der hat überhaupt nichts zu befürchten." Nichts außer Druck & Existenzangst:

In the past quarter-century we’ve transformed large swaths of the Earth’s surface. Here’s a handful of high-res Planet satellite images (all at the same scale) showing the imprint of coal on the landscape, from mine to power plant. From: medium.com/planet-stori...

The Washington Post opinion section is a thing to behold today. (Don't worry, I canceled my subscription, but old habits die hard, and I tend to still navigate to their front page during my news reading in the morning.)

Zeitumstellung ist das Softwareupdate für den Körper - nichts wird wirklich besser, nur subtil anders; man braucht eine Weile bis man sich daran gewöhnt; wenn man es nicht macht, geht gar nichts mehr, und in nem halben Jahr wird es mit dem nächsten Update eh nivelliert.

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Wenn Friedrich Merz sie instrumentalisieren will, sind es “Töchter”. Wenn sie sich nicht instrumentalisieren lassen, sind es “Gören”. Ganz einfach eigentlich.

What a packed event last night—about 70 people joined for inputs and discussions on ‘visualising data’. First, we heard from @moritzstefaner.bsky.social about his work for @diplo.de and @bmg-bund.bsky.social. Then, Thanh Thu Nguyen presented her work at @udkberlin.bsky.social on facial recognition.

New guest post is from the @climate.us team. They've rescued the Fifth National Climate Assessment and have more planned! www.datarescueproject.org/guest-climat...

Tonight, we’ll discuss ‘Visualising data’ in our 11th #ÖffentlichesGestalten meetup—jointly run by @digitalservice.bund.de and @tsbberlin.bsky.social’s CityLAB Berlin. We’ll hear from @moritzstefaner.bsky.social and Thanh Thu Nguyen and get to see their data visualisation work for the public sector

Do you want a bit more sketchiness in your #datavis? Here's my @observablehq.com Plot plugin that turns an Plot specification into a sketchy version with minimal extra work: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/m... Builds on the work of Gordon Tu and rough.js

New German #GovDesign job opening! 📣 The State of Lower Saxony is looking for a #UXDesigner for its #ITNiedersachsen unit, based in Hanover. You can apply until 30 October 2025. A brand design working student role at the in-house consultancy PD remains open. ➡️ verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

Dream job alert in eigener Sache! 👇 jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/12...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

In all its absurdity, this analysis actually makes a lot of sense.

“The Frog is ludicrous. The Frog makes no sense. The Frog is a viral symbol of resistance against the Trump regime, and the key to understanding what has happened to discourse in the second Trump presidency.” www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.

Meet me in Berlin on Tue, Oct 21: I'll speak at the "Öffentliches Gestalten" meetup on my data design projects for the German government. Hope to see some of you there 🤗 www.meetup.com/offentliches...

📊 #Dataviz PSA: When using areas to depict numbers, make sure you are indeed scaling the *area*, and not the width/length/diameter of the circles (or other shapes). Because software such as Illustrator don’t let you specify the area directly, you need do a small calculation to get it right. 1/2

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Does the news reflect what we die from?

▪️Schaden durch Betrug beim Bürgergeld - 60 Mio. € ▪️Schaden durch Steuerhinterziehung - 100 Mrd. € ▪️Vor 60 Mio. Sekunden war es Juli 2023 ▪️Vor 100 Mrd. Sekunden regierte Ramses III Ägypten

just sayin‘

Swedish people in front of charts Source: digitaltmuseum.org