When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This seems to be a good moment to cancel that Disney+ subscription. I didn’t watch two seasons of brave rebels fighting the evil Empire only to see real world media conglomerates bowing to government pressure at the slightest hint…

What Malnutrition Does to Children’s Bodies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Israel ordered everyone in Gaza City to leave. Satellite images show how hard that’s going to be. nyti.ms/3VMbtp7

For my latest Weekly Chart at @datawrapper.de I tried a different way of mapping destruction in Gaza using OSM buildings. www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...

Have you ever wanted to map satellite data like temperature, cloud cover, and vegetation with GDAL? I wrote a tutorial for that! medium.com/@robsimmon/a...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”

Absolutely devastating but no longer headline news… www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've been playing with the new Observable Notebooks 2.0 over the past days and I'm amazed. While still a preview I think it's already a serious alternative to R or Jupyter notebooks. Love that it works locally now and that notebooks are just HTML files with vanilla JS observablehq.com/notebook-kit/

„In March, Israel imposed an aid blockade on Gaza in an effort to squeeze concessions from Hamas; it also said, without providing evidence, that the militant group was systematically stealing the supplies. That (...) caused widespread hunger among Gazans.“ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/

*Huge* new feature in Datawrapper! You can now create locator maps using the globe (aka orthographic) projection. Makes small scale maps so much better compared to the Mercator projection! All thanks to the amazing folks at @datawrapper.de and @maplibre.org ❤️ www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-glo...

Extreme heat doesn’t receive the same “round-the-clock” coverage as wildfires, hurricanes, or floods. Yet, “Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.” By Meg Bernhard @columjournreview.bsky.social

Trump’s approval rating on deportations is currently lower than his approval on the economy www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

No map or visualization can tell you how hot 37°C feels like. Walking the streets in Berlin today feels like slowly dying. Spain and Portugal have suffered from this heat wave all week, and I can’t even begin to imagine temperatures in China, India, Iran, etc. www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...

The representative electoral statistics show how often each demographic group voted for different parties in the German federal election. This year, I’ve prepared the data as radar charts. What do you think: does this type of chart work well for this kind of data? www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Multiple tornadoes tore across parts of South Dakota on Saturday.

So excited to have this out! I’ve been working on The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century for months. We polled over 500 major directors, actors, and other people in and around Hollywood to find out the best films released since 2000. You’re gonna be obsessed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

War es auf der Erde schonmal so warm wie jetzt? Ja. Aber dafür muss man verdammt weit zurückblicken. @driven-by-data.net und ich haben uns 485 Millionen Jahre Klimageschichte angeschaut- von den Dinosauriern bis zum iPhone.

People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...

Wow! It's a great honor to receive this Information is Beautiful Award. Thanks to @datawrapper.de for letting me inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community! Find all #IIBAwards winners here: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...

✨Use llms from #rstats with ellmer ✨Version 0.2.0 is on CRAN now. No blog post yet because I'm about to go on vacation, but in the meantime you can check out the release notes: github.com/tidyverse/el....

Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵

So @driven-by-data.net just launched SveltePlot, which merges my 2 fav things in #DataViz: Svelte and the Grammar of Graphics. 100% going to use this! Site: svelteplot.dev Gregor's slides: www.vis4.net/slides/svelt... #SvelteSummit

Remember when I discussed the idea for a new data visualization framework for Svelte? It is time to get excited! I’ve been secretly working on making SveltePlot possible and will finally share the current state next week at @svelte.dev Summit 2025!!! Stay tuned... www.vis4.net/blog/2024/01...

From our friends in NYT Graphics: "We analyzed import data to show where Americans may see product shortages, fewer choices and price increases." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Insider trading or not? We analyzed minutely stock data for the 20 most traded S&P 500 companies before, during and after Trumps announcement for pausing most tariffs and talked to financial experts about what this means www.zeit.de/geld/2025-04...

Info+ submissions are open! This year's theme is around ENERGY (which I personally think dovetails with Outlier's "Reimagining" theme nicely). If you have an interesting perspective to share in the world of #dataviz and information design more broadly: informationplusconference.com/2025/submiss...

Today is officially the day where intraday market charts have their time to shine in the media spotlight.

Via @lazarogamio.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵

DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...

NEW: We ran 1600 queries across eight generative AI search tools to see how they cite news content. They all did pretty poorly. (w/ @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social) www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

Perhaps this is a lost fight, but I refuse to use #dataviz as abbreviation for data visualization — it’s wrong and should be #datavis! Why? ➡️ 🧵

Oh, and the thread may sound a bit like we went straight for the solution, but of course there were a lot of uglier versions before that. One big leap forward was the decision to include the outer country shape, which is often missing in cartograms.

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

Noch nie haben wir bei @zeit.de so ausführlich mit Datenvisualisierungen, Karten, Grafiken und interaktiven Tools über eine Bundestagswahl berichtet wie in diesem Jahr. www.zeit.de/wahlergebnis Ein Thread 🧵

AMA about my love of maps observablehq.com/blog/maps-an... thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

POV: it’s 2025 and I’m still solving my problems with setTimeout()

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

Die aktuelle Erwärmung der Arktis ist extrem. Eisausdehnung auf Rekordminimum und unglaublich hohe Temperaturen. Rund 20 Grad wärmer als normal! Über der gesamten Fläche nördlich von 80 Grad. 😳 Quelle: DMI

The number of options for government coalitions in the upcoming German election heavily depends on how many smaller parties reach the five-percent threshold. We analyzed 50.000 elections to visualize this effect using animated kernel density plots 🤓 (text in 🇩🇪) www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Insane: all books of the world visualized in ISBN space phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/vi... (by github.com/phiresky, via HackerNews)

Ever wondered what a country’s meat supply looks like? 🍗🐄🐖🐟 Here’s a breakdown of meat preferences in Japan, the US & Germany—visualized as hybrid animals! A fun (and slightly cursed) way to see food stats. 🧵👇

Saturday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data) • about 640,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,280,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,850,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,290,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...