Another great dive into the history of #dataviz 📊

Next Monday

Is there anything of poorer quality than any Apple charger? It is incomprehensible how something can be so badly designed that it has to be replaced every six months because it breaks, snaps or tears.

I'll present our work on Embedding Atlas (apple.github.io/embedding-at...) in the @ieeevis.bsky.social session "VIS Short Papers: Explorations in Abstract and Physical Spaces" in Room 1.14 after lunch.

"Picturing Pyrotechnics" — @simon_werrett on how artists through the ages have responded to the challenge of representing firework displays: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pyrotechnics #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

My book on dataviz was published one year ago. Still a couple of dozens are available in Hungary. More info, preview here: attilabatorfy.com/adatvizualiz...

New in the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: Keeping Visualization Human in an AI-Driven World, by Michela Tjan: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/keeping-vi... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

October recap. What to expect in November? What I found interesting? Some personal news. Soundtrack of October.

My son started drawing explanatory infographics about what and how I should do things! "Put banana, raspberry, blackberry and milk in the blender"

The October newsletter will be sent out tomorrow to subscribers, which means there's around 24 hours available for non-subscribers to resolve not being subscribers! visualisingdata.com/newsletter/

Good bye, my master, my hero, my legend. Péter György (1954–2025). Incomprehensible.

my interview by @attilabatorfy.bsky.social is now cross-published to www.chartography.net/p/beyond-sup...

New book in the AK Peters visualization series launching next week: Exploratory Data Analysis Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design by Leandro Nunes de Castro www.routledge.com/Exploratory-... Other books in the series: www.routledge.com/AK-Peters-Vi...

That’s an interesting take on the 3D pie chart. 📊

OMG, someone is selling the Atlas of Central Europe. It costs USD 1,500, and a total of 4-5 copies were printed in English. Someone put pressure on David Rumsey!!!

New post on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities

@attilabatorfy.bsky.social interviews me about falling down the information-graphic history hole open.substack.com/pub/attilaba...

For example if you want to know that according to @infowetrust.com who are the five greatest data graphics creators of all time, then you click! Let's say I would click regardless.

I just heard that this is sold out. See you next week Brooklyn!

What is even more amazing is how he got his "data"--crowd sourced from letters he sent to ~200 people. "Tell me when this arrives"

I rarely go to there, so to speak. But now!

The layout of the Whirlwind I (MIT, 1944)

Building facade or data graphic? New post on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-small-st...

Refiz estas pirâmides etárias dando-lhes alguma interatividade e explorando outra paleta de cores. Experimentem brincar com os países e os anos, é giro. #datavis www.wisevis.eu/piramides-et...

Just released my newsletter with new projects and updates, such as a data art collection about food and voronoi treemaps about health and death. Read it in full here: visualcinnamon.substack.com/p/2025-q4-ne...

Pretty data tables

New series on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities: Cabinet's toolbox. You can download the glossary is csv and html.

Swedish people in front of charts Source: digitaltmuseum.org

We are simply delighted to have the opportunity to share with the commuters of the LA region. There's really a lot to discuss in the exhibition, and we hope you can check it out for yourself! More info here: art.metro.net/artworks/exh...

✨📊 Cold War Military Slides A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars… 🔗 https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides

It started with the migration crisis, then came the Covid-crisis, then came the Russia-Ukraine war crisis. The reason: during times of crisis, the government has no time for parliamentary processes, Orbán must make quick decisions.

Cabinet's Drawer #1 - Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities' monthly recap, September + book and article recommendations, some extras,

The newsletter will be back up and running later today, with a new issue compiling the best dataviz related things I saw during July-August. With non-work life now a little more settled, from next month I'll be able to revert back to my monthly-issue rhythm. visualisingdata.com/newsletter/

Found in my parents' basement. #dataviz from the 1932 Olympics

Just four out the the many graphic methods for presenting statistics on maps proposed by an Austrian colonel. From the first failed handbook on data graphics. Forthcoming article on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities. Monday. You can subscribe here: attilabatorfy.substack.com

The good old days, when GIS data didn't have to be extracted from a hyper-complex data explorer after pressing 46 buttons!

Is this good?

Want to know more about the Ottoman sultans diagrammatic spiritual lineage? Here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-look-int...

New post on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities

New: I went on a months-long treasure hunt for 1,200+ books spanning 450+ years to digitize Daniel Updike’s Printing Types from 1922, detailing the history of printing and typography. Made a nifty poster too. Explore: www.c82.net/printing-types How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=100

Wow Another monumental digital restoration project by @rougeux.bsky.social — a treasure trove for typography lovers! www.c82.net/printing-typ...

It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start! - Average of 700 users/day - Record 1.2K users yesterday - From 78 countries - 66% win overall - 2m 18s average engagement Thank you to all who played + shared the game Any feedback, send our way!

Magic carpet pattern or diagram? We will find out on Monday! Subscribe here to Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities, a weekly selection of rare, lesser-known dataviz, information graphics and maps from all around the world. Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com