I've put the full episode up in video form which is even better because it includes visuals of charts we talk about. It's a handy explainer for people curious about the whole idea of data viz and potentially wanting to get started with it themselves. georginasturge.substack.com/p/the-power-...

Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT: When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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phyphox.org @phyphox.org such an amazing app, can run all sorts of experiments. Yesterday I was playing with the manometer. Great for physics on classroom, but also for understanding all the data that's potentially being captured from your device.

For a German, this is almost better than the actual 2025 review could've been 😅 #discord #privacy

🎉 New: With our upgraded marker editor, even the most complex locator maps are now easy to navigate. 🔍 Adding lots of markers, creating groups, batch editing, or finding that one location in your dataset? We got you! 📍 Learn more on our blog: 👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-loc...

I know this is not new and is just how shit works now and has been for a while. It’s also like fun and vaguely engaging. But so much of the internet is now just “I stole a journalist’s work and am reading it to you and monetizing it for myself.” This has happened endlessly with our Flock reporting

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

broke: teach the kids to code because it's employable woke: teach the kids humanities because it's important to know about art, philosophy and other languages bespoke: teach the kids to code because it's important to know about art, society, philosophy and other languages

Exklusiv: Die @dihk.bsky.social will morgen ein Positionspapier zu Kilma und Energie beschließen. Im Entwurf, der @table.media vorliegt, wird eine Abkehr von praktisch allen wichtigen deutschen Klimazielen gefordert. Das stößt sowohl inhaltlich als auch formal auf scharfe Kritik. (1/3)

In a new report, @hrw.org describes how in the early 2025, the Israeli military launched an operation that emptied three #Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank. Read more👇 bit.ly/3X2zFo7

SveltePlot 0.7 is out! Lots of new features since the last time I posted here: 🎉 jitter transform, 🐝 dodge transform (for beeswarm plots), 🎉 stackMarimekko, 📸 image mark, and most recently the 🧇 waffle mark! And the website now features a ton of examples. ➡️ svelteplot.dev

Subversive in 2000: You copy CDs, rip MP3s and share them with friends (or get them online) without paying a dime to the record industry. Subversive in 2025: You buy a used iPod and directly support artists on Bandcamp to download their music without paying a dime to the streaming industry.

I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen, @emmakumer.bsky.social and @jeremybmerrill.com) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

I'm launching something for us. Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world. Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.

Here is a no-paywall link to today's story www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Was surprised to see that, even though CSS Grid isn't a new feature, it's still high on the list of things devs find confusing, so wrote a post about it. I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think! webkit.org/blog/17474/c...

NEW: Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, 17 out of 27 EU nations have spent more on Russian oil and gas than they’ve sent to Ukraine in aid! Despite an oil embargo, Europe is still sending £1bn a month on Russian energy. This week’s column: www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...

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... 🧵