In late June, Springer Nature sold Scientific American to LabX Media. I have since decided to step out of my role as a senior graphics editor for the magazine :: #sciart 📊 🧪 :: 🧵 [1/7]

✏️ 🗺️ New release for graticule.org introduces Draw mode. You can now easily draw your own point, line, or polygon geometries!

This is worth your time. Amanda makes a point that cannot be emphasized enough: that candidates who have good values and speak plainly about them *are strong even if some voters disagree w/some of their positions.* Centrists fretting about lefty candidates are, as usual, totally missing the point.

Minnesota? More like MEGAsota. Vertex editing now available in graticule.org Check the release notes for details: docs.graticule.org/release-notes/

🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

AMA about my love of maps observablehq.com/blog/maps-an... thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

I've often wanted to be able to easily reference what farms are growing medicinal herbs with a focus on sustainable + regenerative practices. As a designer, I also thought it'd be fun to present that info in a searchable, interactive map. So as a side project, I created herbatlas.fyi #dataviz

First post! My latest from @visuals.axios.com: How a ransomware attack works This was a fun project to build. Probably the most CSS animations I've forced into a single page ✨ Words by @samsabin.bsky.social, illustration by Aïda Amer, dev by me. www.axios.com/visuals/comp...

Cool color-mixing paper using the Kubelka–Munk model (which incorporates light absorption & scattering) to simulate real life paint behavior in software: scrtwpns.com/mixbox.pdf It would be interesting to play with to generate #dataviz palettes. via @jscarto.bsky.social & Jack Morris 📊🎨

🌟 Professional news 🌟 Today I joined @observablehq.com as a UX Designer to help build the next generation of awesome data + viz products! I've been a fan and user of Observable since the beginning, so I'm very excited to be a part of the journey and join such an inspiring team 🤗

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. Made with Plot, based on a great tutorial by Fil: observablehq.com/@jo... Data from TerraClimate (1958-present). #cartography #maps #mapping #climate #dataviz #SciArt

Have you seen the best of Axios Visuals 2024 yet? Come for the bitcoin ETF saga timeline, stay for an investigation into how many cupholders different countries put on their boats, an analysis of cicada brood sizes, and dancing Nerds. graphics.axios.com/2024-visuals...

project 1: Map Designer, a #dataviz tool and @figma.com plug in that simplifies the process creating and customizing maps in Figma! Had a lot of fun learning how to translate d3-geo's svg paths into Figma's vector networks. try it out and let me know what you think! www.figma.com/community/pl...

CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...

Undershirt coordinated with the orange, belt cinching the jumpsuit to build a snatched silhouette. Someone’s been going to the Anna Delvey school of prison styling

We have the Juicy Lucy, a cheeseburger with cheese on the inside of the patty. Why? So you can get squirted in the face with boiling hot cheese on your first bite, and said cheese can then drool out onto your plate leaving you with a dry cheeseless burger!

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

Me and my bestie in 30 years talking about waluigi

Me hosting Thanksgiving

Brining chicken in a pitcher because Thanksgiving

He forgot the first rule: don't get high on your own supply www.economist.com/briefing/202...

congrats to @pinakographos.bsky.social & @awoodruff.bsky.social for launching mapartists.org "A shopping guide offered by the Independent Map Artists"

Ok, I'm doing this Friday at 11am Pacific on the @rfortherestofus.com YouTube channel. youtube.com/live/mHyjToT...

Surely this will be less popular than the dog tweet, but I've also done some Cool Work during my Twitter hiatus. Including this story about wildfire smoke that features a scrolling animated smoke map www.axios.com/us-climate-c...

What have I been up to since my Twitter hiatus? Well for starters, I obtained a miniature polar bear. She is a menace to society and I love her.

It's baccckkkk! We're excited to announce the 8th annual Pudding Cup where we pick the best visual and data-driven stories of 2024. 📅 Deadline: Saturday, Nov. 30 📢 Winners announced: the week of Dec. 9 💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500 pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

I learned lots about mucosal immunity while working on @sutherlandphd.bsky.social’s article “New Nasal Vaccines Offer Better Protection from COVID and Flu—No Needle Required.” Here’s a peek at how the graphics plan developed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-... 🧪🐡 #SciArt

New in the newsletter / Nuevo en la newsletter: English: The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025 theartofinsight.substack.com/p/the-open-v... Español: La Open Visualization Academy llegará en 2025 albertocairo.substack.com/p/la-open-vi... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

This is still one of my favorite things I designed. And Jacque moving mountains to somehow get this to be responsive AND get that transition nice and smooth was the thing that really made it sing

Are people shitposting yet? I need to know how earnest to be

🧵Okay let's do some BTS for Axios' elections #dataviz. 1/5: We used <canvas> for our big maps, which means we had to do some tricks with color hashes to get interactivity. What the reader sees vs. what the computer sees. Details on how it works: observablehq.com/@camargo/can...

Introducing <NumberFlow> for @svelte.dev (4 & 5): Transition, format, and localize numbers. Built on Intl.NumberFormat and Web Animations. Dependency-free. Accessible. Customizable. number-flow.barvian.me/svelte Thank you @rich-harris.dev + team for all your work on this framework 🧡

Diva down

Harris policy proposals had more support (even decent among Trump voters). And yet... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

❄️ The U.S. is getting less snowy, according to 60 years of meteorological records. In today's Climate Lab column, see this winter’s forecast in your county and find out if it gets less snow now than it used to. Gift link: wapo.st/3CjsMaD

In three weeks, I‘ll be teaching Svelte with D3 for interactive data visualization in Utrecht. And yes, we’ll of course use Svelte 5! ➡️ graphichunters.nl/interactive-... @graphichunters.bsky.social @sveltesociety.dev

No contest... got millions of views on Reddit and even landed on a Fox News segment where I was labelled as a liberal elite who wants to take away your trucks 🙃 www.axios.com/ford-pickup-...

Twitter used to be my favorite thing, then some dude ruined it. I've been told this is the place to be for #dataviz and web ppl. Hoping to reconnect with old pals here :) 👋