Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

Snatch up the WaPo folks. A lot of talent entered free agency today.

From the White House, a bar chart that starts at 80.2 to exaggerate change incorrectly. Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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Out of New York and California and into Florida and Texas. Population drops and gains in every state flowingdata.com/2026/01/29/p...

Dumb times, dumb charts. Timelines for the people references in We Didn't Start the Fire flowingdata.com/2026/01/20/t...

Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten: There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined. 9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.

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

I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why

New Year's resolutions for men and women that we will definitely follow through with this year flowingdata.com/2026/01/05/n...

Happy new year everyone

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025, a.k.a. my favorites flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/b...

Who we spend our time with is just as important as how we spend our time. With age, sex, and day of week, there are shifts in who we choose to be with flowingdata.com/2025/12/17/t...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Who makes more than you and the jobs they have, depends on your annual salary of course flowingdata.com/2025/12/02/w...

Very good.

Bye doge.

NEW: New Jersey’s township data is (mostly) in, so @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social & I crunched the numbers on NJ’s blue shift/pendulum swing The same majority-Hispanic cities & towns that swung to Trump in 24 shifted back D, to Mikie Sherrill, in the governor’s race www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Welcome back, federal workers.

How men and women spend their days, a view into responsibilities and priorities between the sexes flowingdata.com/2025/11/04/s...

Halloween logicals, still the best 10/31 venn

If we define middle-class income based on median, a la @pewresearch.org, what qualifies as middle income changes by state and household size flowingdata.com/2025/10/23/m...

I've been feeling the uncertainty all year. Turns out, I'm not alone. A milestone birthday and an untenable employment situation were enough. But the global multi-crises tipped me over the edge. I got a tattoo, bangs and quit my job. Then I launched a newsletter. www.not-ship.com/its-not-just...

It's World Statistics Day, only once every five years, almost like the Olympics but even more rare unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/202...

Cost of Living, by State and Spending Category flowingdata.com/2025/10/16/c... It's sortin' time.

How much alcohol Americans drink flowingdata.com/2025/10/02/a...

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Got my first @flowingdata.com feature for my analysis at @thexylom.com! Thank you Nathan :)

For members, this month's visualization roundup is up flowingdata.com/2025/09/25/p...

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Salary and Occupation flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/s...

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

The seven-year itch is more like the 1- and 5-year itch flowingdata.com/projects/202...

"Call me old-fashioned, but I’d rather have a poorly-written, incomplete obituary from a loved one than a pristine-looking convergence of words from a machine" @flowingdata.com: flowingdata.com/2025/08/06/a...

A petulant child who accuses you of cheating whenever he loses.

BREAKING: President Trump is calling for the firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after the federal statistical agency released a weaker-than-expected jobs report

Gold star for visuals.

Most common use of time throughout the day, by age and sex flowingdata.com/2025/07/17/m...

Can't be stressed enough where $9 billion sits in comparison to where gov spending is being shifted. (Chart from May, so not exactly in line with the final bill)

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers

Marital status distributions have changed with life expectancy and shifts in priorities in relationships flowingdata.com/2025/07/09/m...

National Weather Service, very important.

18 years. FD is a grown-up now. Watch out, world.

Matchmaking by browser history. Data for GOOD. browser.dating

It is always a welcome reminder that money can’t buy everything.

A long graphic shows the scale and depth of the bunker-buster bombs. Scroll and scroll more, past the height of a 22-story building www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Beautiful work by @alv9n.com on conversations and interactions between strangers, with signature anecdote to aggregate transitions and a closing personal note pudding.cool/2025/06/hell...

Please remember that with great power comes great responsibility developer.apple.com/videos/play/...