Remember The Seinfeld Chronicles? @visualisingdata.com’s massive dataviz deep dive into Seinfeld now has a digital edition – enhanced with sound and video. At Loud Numbers, Duncan Geere and I built a data-to-music engine for all 176 episodes. Fun, silly, rigorous. 👉 seinfeld.visualisingdata.com

The Seinfeld Chronicles, digital edition, will be launched next week. It’s a giant, sound-enhanced data experience all about Seinfeld. Join @visualisingdata.com, @annemariedufour.bsky.social, Duncan Geere and me on 29 June to find out how we made it. Register 👉 visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...

The final ever episode of 'Explore Explain' will be a recorded live webinar on 29 June 1pm (UTC) where I and my brilliant collaborators will both explore and explain the creative process behind the new digital edition of 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'. Register now! visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...

Ready-to-eat meats, like hot dogs and deli meats, are responsible for at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings, a Sentient analysis found. @greymoran.bsky.social and @miriamquick.bsky.social report:

At least 40% of USDA food recalls are for ready-to-eat meat: deli meats, hot dogs, pâté. Piece by @greymoran.bsky.social and me: sentientmedia.org/recall-these...

Just when you thought there was no possible way to do a fresh data angle on the Eurovision... Love this look at the lyrics by @puntofisso.bsky.social puntofisso.net/eurovision/

I designed the graphics for this important story by @mccoolingtons.bsky.social and @ludovicparsons.bsky.social. Take care when reading, topic is upsetting.

Proud to have played a part in this project

I went on the Nick Grimshaw show on BBC 6 Music talking about turning data into music, and about visualising David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Listen back from 1:41:30 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Turkey industry workers make around $18 per hour, at great risk to their health. @miriamquick.bsky.social & I looked at the 351 injuries - from severed fingers to injured corneas - suffered by the workers who produce the turkey many will enjoy in the coming days sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...

I crunched the numbers for this @nytimes.com piece by Alex Marshall on how to win Eurovision. What would you add to this list? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/a...

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

If you want to join the broader US govt data rescue efforts, there’s a list of ways to help at www.datarescueproject.org/current-effo...

Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social: US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa. And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.

A huge shoutout to @christian.czymara.com 🙌 who created a customised #rstats chatgpt called Code Nerd that replies only with bare code. It's absolutely magnificent 😍 chatgpt.com/g/g-J5futwiV...

Interesting. Sleeping badly is linked with belief in conspiracy theories theconversation.com/how-poor-sle...

Good news! The current lack of transparency about UK land ownership is ridiculous.

After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

So I’ve just discovered you can use the R packages gander and ellmer to chat with AI assistants directly in RStudio. Sooooo much easier than copy pasting chunks of code into ChatGPT. simonpcouch.github.io/gander/

New bedtime reading

Old post but I just joined Bluesky so here you go ❤️

What the actual Europe reels after Trump announces US-Russia talks over Ukraine on.ft.com/40VnfzW

“In a visually-dominant culture, sound can mobilize inanimate data into affective experience that resonates beyond the intellect, bypassing typical information processing, giving voice to the unheard.” @noahpred.bsky.social’s article on sonification is a must-read 👇 manifest.audio/signal-001-w...