The Geography of the Labour Force Composition in the Netherlands by Ate Poorthuis (doi.org/10.1111/tesg...). One of the best uses of the centered ternary balance scheme (www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...) I've seen so far. Build with tricolore github.com/jschoeley/tr... @ikashnitsky.phd

I've updated Geoblender so that the country DEM prep is automated using python! Simply add the DEM tiles and set COUNTRY_CODE to your desired country. I also added the option to download and drape a Sentinel satellite image over it! See github.com/joewdavies/g... #gis #cartography #blender #b3d

I've updated Geoblender so that the country DEM prep is automated using python! Simply add the DEM tiles and set COUNTRY_CODE to your desired country. I also added the option to download and drape a Sentinel satellite image over it! See github.com/joewdavies/g... #gis #cartography #blender #b3d

Retiro, Madrid

Guess where?

Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter. – Physics-based color repulsion – Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias – Adaptive spacing to hit target count – OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform) Early Access: please break it! chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

#cartography #gis #maps

First attempts at visualizing El Tranco, a place where I have spent many summers, using CartoHD (by @jgaffuri.bsky.social

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output. Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

these are excellent

📣 NEW WORK! Excited to share my latest work with the Publications Office of the European Union 🇪🇺 I got to create 9 dataviz for 3 of the EU's monthly Data Stories, covering fascinating topics, from leisure, health and the future. See all the visuals here: www.visualcinnamon.com/portfolio/eu...

Just stumbled across this wonderful FREE book on "Engineers of Map Art" documenting over a decade of cartography at ETH Zurich. A quick scroll shows amazing maps 😍 👉 ebook: www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/pub... 👉 physical copy: karto.ethz.ch/en/publicati... Have fun reading!

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

#relief #maps of various places in #europe as #hysometric tints. shorturl.at/UHMfW #cartography #gischat #map

Some more gridviz experimental sillyness applied to a map of US passenger flights...

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Out of curiosity, I made a notebook that turns an image into a csv grid and visualises it with gridviz, allowing you to manipulate each pixel: observablehq.com/d/0a51240cfc... Not that useful, but I thought it looked cool!

Out of curiosity, I made a notebook that turns an image into a csv grid and visualises it with gridviz, allowing you to manipulate each pixel: observablehq.com/d/0a51240cfc... Not that useful, but I thought it looked cool!

NEW: Deforestation in Indonesia is underway at a rapid pace, with the help of the military, to make way for rice and sugarcane. Huge thanks to @mightyearth.org for their help with the data. Read Anantha Lakshmi's excellent report www.ft.com/content/27a6... #dataviz #gistribe

Difficult one today! Statle (19/12/2025) 5/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 11 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩↖️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬅️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜↘️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle

Playing around some more with Eurostat's flight data: observablehq.com/@eurostat-ws... Some interesting discoveries when calculating the difference between 'passengers carried' and 'seats available'. We can visualize 'empty seats' and '% of seats that are empty'. To be continued...

Playing around some more with Eurostat's flight data: observablehq.com/@eurostat-ws... Some interesting discoveries when calculating the difference between 'passengers carried' and 'seats available'. We can visualize 'empty seats' and '% of seats that are empty'. To be continued...

Lots of people struggling with today's one! Statle (13/12/2025) 3/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 5 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬆️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle

Statle (12/12/2025) 2/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 4 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩↘️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle

Playing around with edge-bundling Eurostat's passenger flight data

Playing around with edge-bundling Eurostat's passenger flight data

Struggled with that one! Statle (10/12/2025) 5/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 2 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜⬅️ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↗️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩↘️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle

Travel times to healthcare & primary schools across the EU at 100m resolution You can: •View drive times to 1 or 3 nearest services. •Compare 2023 vs 2020 to spot changes. •Show all grid cells or only populated ones. •Size cells by population to gauge impacted people. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Travel times to healthcare & primary schools across the EU at 100m resolution You can: •View drive times to 1 or 3 nearest services. •Compare 2023 vs 2020 to spot changes. •Show all grid cells or only populated ones. •Size cells by population to gauge impacted people. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web...

Map showing air passengers carried from the EU to outside the EU in 2024, and their change compared to 2023.

Land area is a big giveaway for today's statle! Statle (07/12/2025) 2/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 1 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜⬅️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle

Like Wordle - but for countries. It’s fun and educational!

Statle (06/12/2025) 3/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 46 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜↘️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜↘️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle I think I've done well here.

Hi! I made a wordle-like game where you guess the country based on stats! joewdavies.github.io/statle/ Let me know what you think!

Statle (05/12/2025) 2/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Win Streak: 45 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 joewdavies.github.io/statle Nobody is beating that!

Hi! I made a wordle-like game where you guess the country based on stats! joewdavies.github.io/statle/ Let me know what you think!

This morning, I had the chance to present Eurostat work on education and healthcare services accessibility in Europe, with my colleague @joewdavies.bsky.social. If you missed it, the replay is luckily available: ➡️ europa.eu/!GxbcDt #map #gis #cartography #mapping #demography #europe #gischat

Julien (@jgaffuri.bsky.social) and I will be giving a brief talk on some grid-based fun on wednesday in case you fancy tuning in: ec.europa.eu/eurostat/new... #maps #statistics #GIS

Travel times to European cities. A web mapping tool based on the gridviz JavaScript library (Eurostat) for the H2020 Granular project. - app: nlambert.gitpages.huma-num.fr/granular-gri... - code: gitlab.huma-num.fr/nlambert/gra...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Here are global currents in the Spilhaus one-world-ocean map projection.

Grid Cartograms are now available in eurostat-map! just use map.gridCartogram(true) observablehq.com/@joewdavies/... have a nice weekend :)

'Put it into Blender and see what happens' #4 Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. (Monthly data since 1958 by TerraClimate) observablehq.com/@jo...#4 #maps #blender #climate #sciart #cartography #gis

Today we have a Maps Dispatch for you. Find locator maps about fire 🔥, symbol maps about congestion 🚗, and choropleth maps about dengue fever 🦟. Full Data Vis Dispatch here: https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-january-14-2025/

Global temperature anomalies 1880-2024. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5450

3D renders of LINZ topographic maps of New Zealand. #gis #blender #map

Some maps from the Global Climate Highlights 2024 by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social "Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were higher in 2024 than at any time in at least 2,000,000 years." climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

'Put it into Blender and see what happens' #4 Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation. (Monthly data since 1958 by TerraClimate) observablehq.com/@jo...#4 #maps #blender #climate #sciart #cartography #gis

Shaded relief map of Nepal 🇳🇵 The only country with a non-rectangular flag! Made with Blender and QGIS. #map #gis #nepal #blender