EU Commission President's anual "State of the European Union" speech means an update to my dataviz analysing the languages used. To the chagrin of some, it was again a predominantly English address, even more so than 2 years ago. German and French got <4 min. each. #soteu2025 #SOTEU 🇪🇺

People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...

A complex family tree of noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters and slaveowners. From the NYT Magazine: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I know most of my followers will be familiar with the story of Giovanni Falcone but for those who did not follow me in the other place and don't know it, I have transferred my thread from there over here. Warning, it is a very long thread (200+ posts) but worth the effort to read.

Reminds me of "The Lost Literature of Rome" by the Isotype Institute for CICERO AND THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (1948)

Of course this will affect Europe, though probably not in the same way as in 2008. But for 40 years Europeans have been told by so many policymakers in the US and UK that they should emulate an American model that is now heading to self-destruction. A lesson there for future EU policy too.

With @arnoldplaton.bsky.social beautiful map!

Cartography ladies and gents, check out this watch I was gifted recently 😎

A fun stat from me in this week's Economist. Since the election, right-wing Britons have been turning to e-petitions: www.economist.com/britain/2025... When you're out of power, slacktivism is cathartic!

Hey @arnoldplaton.bsky.social , a Romanian who writes in Spanish and Catalan has won an important literary prize. And her day job is teaching English in a small town school. Writers who choose a language not their own are interesting almost by definition

Ich habe meinen ersten Text für das Datenressort @zeit.de geschrieben und es geht (unter anderem) um das Heilige Römische Reich. Alles daran finde ich fantastisch 👉👈 www.zeit.de/politik/2024...

Dass das Heilige Römische Reich uns politisch noch immer beeinflusst, hätte ich nicht gedacht – bis ich mich mit Phantomgrenzen beschäftigen durfte. Wir haben uns angeschaut, welche alten Grenzen bis heute sichtbar sind www.zeit.de/politik/2024...

Dataviz in my local paper. 🙃 Front page

Interesting Capital City vs. Other Cities and Towns split in the Romanian diaspora vote...

For the fun of it, since Ursula von der Leyen is getting confirmed today: A history of the political affiliation of the European Commissioners 🇪🇺

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

Hungarian noun cases with examples

Nations have always been immensely diverse collections of people who don't agree with each other on tons of things. But despite those differences, the nation existed in their minds, an entity in whose existence they believed in part because media enabled them to see it.

In preparation for the Romanian presidential (round 1) and parliamentary elections this Sunday, Hotnews has prepared some election maps/analysis of 2014 to 2019 results. Among them this arrow map. alegeri.hotnews.ro/cum-s-a-schi...

We created a new dashboard for @zeit.de showing the current state of election polls in Germany ahead of the upcoming election in February. Also shows probabilities for govt. coalitions based on the polls. The full article version also features my favorite sparklines. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊 — What's your claim to fame? ✨ — How might we know you already? What have you done that we might have seen or read before? What would help us remember how we came across you? Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡

🌍 #30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Conflict Today’s map visualizes the intensity of conflict in Ukraine, where more than 2,240 events were reported in just the first 15 days of November 2024. Code: shorturl.at/wLIBR #maps #GIS #rstats

Oh I remember when these were making the round on the bird app. @awoodruff.bsky.social had a version. Inspired me to make a radial one, to "bring the 🇪🇺 EU closer to Bruxelles". Literally 😂 arnoldplaton.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/h...

Another great tool by @zeit.de, this time for polls on the German elections. For now, it confirms that the best chances for a majority are with the CDU/CSU + SPD option, but much I expect polls still to move significantly.

Since Commission President von der Leyen has now joined this place, here is a visualisation I've been making for a few years now on the languages she and her predecessors used in the annual State of European Union address in the plenary chamber of the 🇪🇺 Parliament I suspect no such speech this year

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...

Very interesting research on the effects and public support for farmers' protest, inter alia showing how much more goodwill farmers tend to get from the public than climate activists:

I really love the coat of arms of Nuuk, which features a silhouette of Mt. Sermitsiaq 🏔️ Want to visit ever since I saw the stunning images of the city's environs in the episode dedicated to Nuuk, in the Netflix documentary series "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons" (s5e3)

The EU only with letters. 🅰️🅱️©️ 🇪🇺 #30DayMapChallenge Day 19 Typography #rstats #maps

Multi-scale journey map 🗺️👌

I really love that the French Wikipedia article on the 🇪🇺 2024 EU elections gives you the majority coalitions that can be formed given the results. (But it annoys me that they use the same colour for EPP and ECR) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l...

I refuse to join Bluesky — I don’t want to become part of an El Greco chamber

The 🇺🇸 US election arrow map works so well because of a number factors that congregate that make a similar exercise a lot more complicated in a different electoral context like the 🇪🇺 EU elections (my jazz) : 1. County areas are relatively homogenous & arrange mostly in a grid pattern 2. D/R duopoly

The other day we had an interesting discussion about election cartograms in our team that I think is share-worthy: At ZEIT Online went all-in using just a hexagon cartogram for the US election, and we even dismissed a geographical map as opt-in alternative..

For what it’s worth: an alternative view on the 2024 U.S. Election Map 🗳️ This map scales states by electoral weight, preserving the U.S. shape for recognition. Voronoi-based shapes within each state show exact elector counts, with an animation transitioning from the traditional map to this cartogram

What if the President of the European Commission was voted in via Electoral Colleges 🗳️ My simulation of what the last 3 🇪🇺 European Elections would have looked like if the EU used an winner takes it all system à la USA Small 🧵

Lovely dot maps of the 2019 European election results which take population density into account (Spain so empty) from @arnoldplaton.bsky.social, showing the leading Group resp only areas where a leading Group got 50%+ of the vote twitter.com/Arnold_Plato...