This TOMORROW! We'll be making these cool data badges too! Doors at 11:30am, talks as 12:30pm! www.eventbrite.com/e/dvc-presen...

I need 10 people to follow our Youtube page before we live stream - HELP! www.youtube.com/@SVA-DataViz...

So yeah, looks like I'm gonna be a faculty member for this SVA Data Viz grad program next year - and more immediately, a presenter at this upcoming event, where I'll discuss "A History of Untrustworthy Graphics." Join in person or online - I'll be there either way!

Come join us In-person or live-streamed for this fascinating discussion with @mhernandez.bsky.social on his work and the crisis in data distrust. www.eventbrite.com/e/dvc-presen... Also featuring @palewi.re, @jeffisawesome.bsky.social, Jen Ray, Kelsey Nanan, and David Rittenhouse!!!

Learn a bit more about "LA on the Move" - our year-long exhibition in LA's Union Station!

Last week I posted some thoughts about Design + Data, but today I talk about the VALUE of design: www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

Check out this interview by us @datavandals.bsky.social

Why design and data belong together in data visualization: www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-de...

Its kind of impossible to go to the Rumsey Map cent and not find incredible stuff: www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

Huge news: @datavandals.bsky.social have opened a new year-long exhibition "LA on the Move" now on view at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles! Discover how people and wildlife all move through LA and how we can support the ecosystem together. /1. datavandals.com/la-on-the-move

I'm very excited to share the official announcement from School of Visual Arts on the new MPS Data Visualization & Communication (DV&C) program!! It is a real thrill to build such an ambitious new project in the heart of NYC. We're just thrilled to create something truly new! sva.edu/features/sva...

Blackout in Grand Central

Since it’s the #equinox, time to re-post the best #dataviz I’ve ever done: 365 pictures of the Earth from space, taken at exactly 6:00 a.m. Details on the NASA Earth Observatory: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/52248...

That time when I made an official remix for Arcade Fire: soundcloud.com/jason-forres...

Actually funny, actually scary:

I'm thrilled to share a *new job posting* for the new MPS Graduate program I'm starting at the School of Visual Art (SVA) in NYC. The Director of Operations will be a partner with me on all aspects of the new program. Apply here: sva.breezy.hr/p/c84c7addcd... 👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉 Please share!

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

@datavandals.bsky.social are sick of supporting social media apps but want to try to create a big community of friends - but how do we do it? We made a survey to get your thoughts docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In the subway, a smidge tipsy, and this tune is hutting it: open.spotify.com/track/4knHbT...

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

As an Isotype obsessive, I have suspected that its methods had been also co-opted by the Nazis, but I had never seen the results until I visited the Vienna museum!! Amazing and chilling!

We’re back in NYC and we moved to Chinatown!! This wonderful street fair was outside our door yesterday:

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

A chance meeting with the great @questionsindataviz.com!!! Ok, maybe not so chance.

Whoa!!! This @csh.ac.at workshop is no joke!!! So excited to present our work tomorrow!!

Some truly epic fireworks in Budapest tonight!!

We’re in Budapest today and saw this fun collection of dataviz wine labels!!!

Meanwhile in Australia:

1950s(?) auto atlas

Back from a rainy hike

We’ve become Alpenists

A few moments of wild flowers in the breeze from the top of the Dachstein-Krippenstein mountains today:

We’re staying at a “alm” in Austria that takes 3 cable cars to get to and we’re staying here for the next 3 days. I think the star gazing will be epic!! Elevation 1,738M

Whoever made this amazing infographic at the Eisreisenwelt in Austria really nailed the assignment! You get directions, context, and data in one intuitive package! And it’s multilingual!!

Hello from Fishbach Austria!!

Hello from Valencia!!!

At the outdoor rave in Ghent yesterday:

My Bluesky feed is 95% politics and anxiety. Ugg

At London Data Week, the @datavandals.bsky.social held a data-performance at London City Hall. The brief: add a bit of informative chaos to a professional event. Our answer: 10 inflatable balls per various metrics, thrown at the audience and 10 people on stage. Thanks Greater London Authority!

Our turtle took a ride in a NYC taxi today

another winner: open.spotify.com/track/2Mmwaa...