Well, this is just delightful. It has everything: data, survey, charts, stories, videos, scrollytelling, animations, 3D modelling, interviews... 📊

New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution. A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power. Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social 🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

"A century ago, design was the future. Good design, by which was meant modernist design, would create a world of fewer, better things (...) That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated (...) Modernism became marketing."

How will the flower bloom in 2100? We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions. variable.io/plant-futures/

And it’s exciting to be a finalist in the @pressgazette.co.uk ‬Future of Media prize for this robots work driven by the visual brilliance of @upyorkshire.ft.com, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, ‪@samjoiner.bsky.social et al. ig.ft.com/ai-robots/ pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

NEW: The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety 👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

We've built a football game and it's free to play! Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game. 👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸

Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España www.rtve.es/n/16694606

The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown on.ft.com/3HtJpDp

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

My friend Yotam is recruiting participants with low vision for a paid online user study on making data visualizations like graphs and charts more accessible. More details at sechaykyotam.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey... #PhdSky #a11y #DataViz

I didn’t realize there’s a Wikipedia page for the climate spiral. 📊 - Came before (2016) the warming stripes (2018) - Also from @edhawkins.org - The idea of a woman, Taran Fæhn - Featured in opening of 2016 olympics - Theres a paper to explain its success en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...

Donald Trump’s Super Pac has amassed almost $200mn thanks to a big injection of cash from the crypto industry, giving the president an enormous war chest ahead of the 2026 congressional elections. on.ft.com/4m08Qf1

New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity. The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed. 👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

Maravilla. En 2013, ¡la virgen!, hablábamos en este artículo de la historia del despacho de Montoro. No es solo que le cambiaran el nombre para disimular cuando se fue a Moncloa, es que se quedó su hermano a cargo: civio.es/poder/2013/1...

‼️ No deberíamos celebrar la llegada de datos de 2017, pero con los incendios forestales es otra historia. La recogida oficial de datos no mejora. Se estanca. En la base del @miteco.gob.es, los últimos datos completos para toda España... son de 2017. Sí, 2017.

‼️ Actualizamos el mapa de España en llamas 🔥 Ya hay más de 237.000 incendios forestales que se pueden consultar en el mapa 🗓️ El último año consolidado para datos en toda España solo aumenta hasta 2017, pero hay datos parciales hasta 2023 civio.es/medio-ambien...

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor. 👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

The 'significant shift' was led by a drop in Syrians seeking protection in the bloc after the fall of the Assad regime, according to an unpublished report seen by the FT. https://on.ft.com/4f35hlG

Tu cara será tu nueva tarjeta sanitaria 👨🏻👩🏽👨🏼👩🏻👨🏿 Sanidad ya instala una IA calificada con un riesgo inicial “muy alto” para fichar pacientes, activada sin conocimiento de los sanitarios, que apunta a facilitar el cobro a inmigrantes y genera dudas sobre la protección de datos. 🔍 Lo hemos investigado:

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately. Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions. 🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

New: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry. The largest domestic deportation operation in US history has seen detention companies’ market value surge. But FT analysis has identified facilities housing 100s more people than they are designed to hold. 👉 ft.com/us-detention-industry

🚨 BIG NEWS: @datavandals.bsky.social are headed to London this week for an EPIC project. Read all about it below! Thanks to all our friends Flourish!! Maybe of interest: @londondatavis.bsky.social, @data.ft.com, @datavizsociety.bsky.social, @womenindataviz.bsky.social, @dataviz.bsky.social

For countries along Europe’s eastern flank, Russia is a present and looming threat. And they are preparing in case Moscow once again decides to test Nato’s defensive resolve. 👉 ig.ft.com/russia-easte...

Is Europe prepared for war? https://on.ft.com/4nsBo1V

"What is left is devoid of the resources needed to sustain human life: the once thriving border town of Rafah is mostly rubble, the sandy ground around it treeless and bare. There is no fresh water or electricity" on.ft.com/4e2vzEd

NEW: Brussels will urge EU capitals to cut water use by 10% by 2030 — the first time a water savings target has been suggested by the E.U. in the face of increasing droughts 🪾 on.ft.com/44YZGtG

NEW: Animation showing the locations of deep sea mining exploration areas. Read @kenzabryan.ft.com's excellent piece with beautiful illustration from @ian-bott.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/a09e... #dataviz

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to see our portfolio of investigations on Russia’s war in Ukraine shortlisted for @gijn.org Sigma Awards. The revelations contribute to mounting evidence of war crimes and show what can be achieved when forensic reporting is combined with visual storytelling. gijn.org/stories/sigm...

Vuelve #DVSMadrid el 📅 22 de mayo Tendremos a la agencia Materia Prima hablando de la visualización de datos cualitativa y una mesa redonda a la que se añadirán Raquel Cabero del @ieuniversity.bsky.social y Rafa Höhr de @losdelvolcan.bsky.social Las 🎟️ vuelan! www.eventbrite.com/e/entradas-d...

NYC congestion pricing is working on.ft.com/3EIT7Rc (gift link)

Listening to @maxlenormand.bsky.social’s podcast with Dan Hammer from Global Forest Watch (I know I’m late to the game since it’s from 2021). I cannot help but smile listening to the shock of hearing Hammer say he would hire a designer first to build a geo-spatial start-up.

WaPo has the numbers on those NIH advisory board purges @jasonmast.bsky.social and I first reported on last month. Six percent of White males who serve on boards were fired, compared with half of Black and Hispanic females and one-quarter of all females, according to an analysis by board chairs.

In #DVSMadrid, a group affiliated with @datavizsociety.bsky.social, we try to make our sessions available via YouTube. If you watch them, you'll have to log the subtitles as we tend to run them in 🇪🇸 :) Last March, we had @pabloalmunia.bsky.social talking about a new JS library for making charts...

Si necesitáis un respiro de tanto arancel y tenéis tiempo esta Semana Santa, hemos subido los vídeos del último #DVSMadrid. Cogeos unas torrijas y disfrutad ;) @pabloalmunia.bsky.social estuvo hablando de Graphane, una nueva librería para hacer 📊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvdS...

New: More than 3/4 of the mobile phones, games consoles, food processors, electric fans and toys shipped to the US last year were made in China. The products are among more than 50 items with an import value above $1bn subject to Trump’s 125% tariffs. Free-to-read link: on.ft.com/3Ei8ujf

We take a look at China's trillion dollar trade surplus and the balance with key partners

NEW: Trump hopes that his tariffs will erode China’s surplus and allow US factories to compete. But the Chinese trade juggernaut is built on deep competitive advantages built up over decades and will not be easily dislodged Our visual deep dive into China's trade dominance ig.ft.com/china-trade-...

The Baltic Sea is home to cables crucial for Europe’s energy supply, but its shallow waters make them vulnerable. Since October 2023, at least 11 incidents of cable damage have been reported In our latest visual story, we explain suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea 👉 ft.com/baltic-sea

New: Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics As tensions rise with Moscow, suspected cable sabotage has exposed the vulnerability of Europe's subsea infrastructure. “I can believe that one case could be an accident. Two cases in a row? Hardly. Three and more? Never." 👉 ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

NEW: Russia's shadow war in the Baltics How a series of suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ft.com/baltic-sea w/ @richardmilne.ft.com @upyorkshire.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @ian-bott.bsky.social

New: Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics. “It is impossible to drag an anchor for 150km without knowing you’re doing it”. We analysed suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea as European nations prepare themselves for a longer-term confrontation with Moscow. 👉 ft.com/baltic-sea

Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics https://www.ft.com/content/02d55623-fea8-42d8-a669-39383ed572c5

I wrote something on the state of and outlook for indie dataviz. "Crisis? What crisis? — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025" truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...