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. 🦋📊

Outlier 2026 brings you “The Final Draft.” #Dataviz is always evolving, & this theme highlights iteration, progress & the power of curiosity, feedback, context, & constraints. Sign up for our newsletter for updates, including the call for speakers & registrations: mailchi.mp/datavisualiz...

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

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I saw this chart in the wild a few days ago and it's been on my mind because the longer I look at it, the more confused I become by it. 📊 I'm fairly sure it's AI generated for a few reasons... A #DataViz thread 🧵

Genuary Day 3: Fibonacci forever 🎨 Figuring out how to programmatically create Fibonacci tiles #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary3

"What do you mean you're 'back to work' today??" Inquires the Chief Purring Officer.

It seems it is once again time for everyone to familiarize themselves with this anti-imperialist classic.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Indeed!

🎉 We’ve received 245 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry 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...

#dataviz folks will also appreciate this one.

Majestic Xmas floof

I'm having fun digging into this visualization of attendees of 1994-2014 Tutor/Mentor Conferences that I hosted in #Chicago. I show a few at tutormentor.blogspot.com/2025/12/take... #datavis #dataviz Thanks to IVMOOC students at Indiana University for creating this.

The archives of the journal Visible Language, which has published interesting articles on #dataviz 📊 in addition to typography, calligraphy, spelling reform, and many other interesting things, are available for free online: journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...

Tables are #dataviz too!

This will be GREAT!

What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ

Rediscovered @unamandita.bsky.social ‘s delightful 2016 article “Everyone’s a Little Bit ‘Shapist’”—featuring a project by Nicky Case—while prepping for a math graphics talk. So good. Great to have an excuse to read it again. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/sa-visu... 📊 #sciart 🧪

This week, we celebrate the launch of our new website with a special edition of the Data Vis Dispatch! 🥳 See where you may have come across Datawrapper visualizations before, and have a peek at our brand new website while you're at it. 📊 👀 ✨ www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn. Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work. mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...

#dataviz folks, Let's bring Steve to Bluesky permanently to have fun with us here! Shoot with your best tips to make the best of Bluesky! My first one: @chezvoila.com starter pack!

For everyone looking for alternatives: as a very long time Firefox user, I'm now using Waterfox. Seems pretty solid from what I can tell so far.

Hey folks - if you've tried to sign up to be able to post on the #dataviz feed in the last couple of weeks and haven't seen your posts, sorry about that! I've been preoccupied with some family matters and wasn't checking the sign up sheet. I've gone through and added everyone. Welcome!

This Excel/PowerPoint plug-in is not available for Mac, so I can't use it, but it looks pretty good. 📊

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

Come join me, @abmakulec.bsky.social, @acotgreave.bsky.social, and Jeffrey Shaffer as we explore some of the highlights (and lowlights) of data visualization in 2025. Like the BBC News, our goal is to inform, educate, and entertain. (But without any scandals). buytickets.at/datarevelati...

You can now get LIFETIME access to my *updated* Visualizing Survey Data Using Tableau On-Demand course. Learn more at bigpic.me/course #surveydata

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This is an account that warrants more following: @tksajeev.bsky.social through the website Newspaper Design has been publishing some really nice interviews/articles with graphics professionals around the world

Happy Thanksgiving! New pod episode: Launching the Trans News Initiative creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... with @petrinkae.bsky.social & @puddingviz.bsky.social The project: transnewsinitiative.org #dataViz #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

I think we could all use a little bit more data in our lives. So, I launched Not-Ship: a newsletter that uses data to understand our messy world. If you agree, help me keep this going for as long as we can. 💙 First step: Sign up to get it in your inbox each week #dataviz www.not-ship.com

In the newsletter: Friends of the Open Visualization Academy, first episode of a new series, a conversation with Nina Krug: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... #dataViz #dataJournalism #dataVisualization