I have a base R graphics joke but it doesn't plot well. #rstats

Yeah hard agree here. Class-action sue them to oblivion! This is not fair use. This is a direct violation of the trust these authors have built in their fields through their hard work, which has not been in any way compensated by a multi-million dollar company.

WTF

Yay! Aotearoa NZ Birbs! These are all marvellous pics.

A reminder that we are adding a new course to the Open Visualization Academy per month. We'll release 'The Craft of Building Stories with Data' by @chartwaali.bsky.social TOMORROW. (We have 12+ courses at different stages of production!) #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

One brillant idea here is to combine the inputs and outputs in the middle instead of trying to connect precisely the sources and destinations, creating an unreadable spaghetti.

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation

In the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: Friends of the OVA, Episode 3, a conversation with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social about his recent State of Neuroscience project openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/truth-beau... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

The AI critics have, once again, been right about everything www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/t...

I saw a #kakapo hatch! I saw a #kakapo hatch! I saw a #kakapo hatch! And now it squeaks like the world's tiniest kazoo and I'm here for it!

Did you know you can see highlights from our #kakapo nestcam: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...? In the last 24 hours we've seen a chick hatch and a rare short-tailed bat flying - and walking - around the nest. Exciting to see things never seen before! #conservation #kakapo2026

The live cam is a staple on my second monitor all day and this is one chirpy chatty little chick! It's too much cuteness to miss.

If you're watching our live #kakapo webcam: an egg near to hatching (Vori-A1-2026) will be put into the next in the next 10 mins. Keep watching over the coming hours/days to hopefully see a chick hatch! #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2...

Sharing some Open Visualization Academy (openvisualizationacademy.org) access numbers: Since we launched, less than a month ago, more than 1,600 people have signed up for it, even if there's no need to do so to watch any of the courses 1/x #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #visualization

Turning 40 today. My cats sum it up nicely.

Often I think we should all just try to make "Slow down! Fix things!" the next big motto.

The #kakapo chicks are coming thick and fast! We're now up to 10 hatched. Here are Tiwhiri-A1 and Tiwhiri-A2 receiving a health check at Yasmine's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. 📸: Lydia Uddstrom #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

Early 40th birthday gift. I'm a very happy kid ☺️

Fun little game! Also, one of the colours was an unfair advantage as it was very similar to my logo's background colour, which I stared at for hours tweaking before. dialed.gg

#dataviz in the wild!

The Kākāpō updates are my happy little place in the timeline!

A delightful little reflection: www.robinsloan.com/winter-garde...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

If Data Rocks NZ was a band, this would be the album cover.

What a beauty. 📊

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In case you missed it yesterday...

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

The Open Visualization Academy launches TOMORROW MORNING (EST) openvisualizationacademy.org with 7 courses; we'll release 1-2 more/month beginning in February. Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

This is a great initiative to practice building dashboards and a portfolio! Tagging the #dataviz field, so folks get to see it there too! :)

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

This will be awesome! I honestly can't wait! Many moons ago, it was one of Alberto's MOOCs that got me out of a depressive slump and into a career I genuinely love. I must say this is timely again, and I am sure many more people will sing the impacts of this initiative for years to come. 📊

🎉 We’ve received 709 responses to the 2025 SOTI Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...

The most adorable thing you'll see!

"It’s been a busy and stressful year, but it’s been worth it, as nothing I’ve done before —my four books, public talks, the popular MOOCs in the early-to-mid 2010’s— compares in scope and ambition to the Open Visualization Academy." - @albertocairo.com

In the newsletter: The Open Visualization Academy is almost here. We launch next week; save the date! openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-v... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

NEW POST: Last week I had a lovely chat with @georginasturge.bsky.social for an episode of her 'Talk Data To Me' podcast where we discussed all sorts of different matters to do with data viz: past, present and future. visualisingdata.com/2026/01/appe...

In an ongoing war against misinformation; AI hallucinations; the ranking of information being determined by advertising revenue; SEO slop; and the general enshitification of the web in general and search in particular, #Wikipedia is leading the charge. It's well worth celebrating this milestone.

Life is meaningless if you can't make charts like this.

The DVS Mentorship Program returns! Apply by January 30 for the Feb - Apr cohort. This program offers mentees early in their #dataviz career an opportunity to work with a mentor who has 5+ years of professional experience in the field. Apply here: www.datavisualizationsociety.org/mentorship

Tagging the #dataviz feed This looks interesting!

I'm working with some stellar collaborators to bring this data set to life through a data visualization contest. Please consider participating. Just *looking* at the data will expand its reach. bigpic.me/broadway

It's amazing how much early platforms have trained us to believe that "like" = "this is worth more and therefore should be amplified". This ties value to engagement, which is the point is ad-supported spaces. But Bluesky has no ads or algo, unless the feed does otherwise. So, repost, repost, repost!

#dataviz educators, what are some things you could use from the R/Python ecosystem of packages but in the browser for no-code teaching? Last year I made Pivotteer to provide a GUI for dplyr's pivot functions (unparalleled API), what else would be nice to have? pivotteer.netlify.app

Reading Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish for the first time and... Wow. Go read it, everyone. You can find it in the Internet Archive library.

Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Just a note in passing regarding the Bluesky dataviz community: this post has lots of activity here in 24 hours and also, Joey did not announce it on X. It happens here. 🦋📊