some of the contributors to my book are getting their copies already…and i haven’t seen it yet! rowland did a beautiful website for it: www.letsgetinfografit.com have a look!

my university's library sorts out old Time magazines, bound by year. And look! @nigelblue.bsky.social

my book Let’s Get infografit is almost out (pub date sept 5); you can pre-order it at routledge/crc press and amazon. the preview there is for the ebook version; not quite the same as the real thing! oh well…here’s the cover:

great book about an oddly great guy!

This was an absolutely great book! An amazing story, Guy Delisle dug deeply into the challenges, triumphs & horrific moments of Muybridge’s life, I learned a ton, was captivated for all of it. My dad got it first recommended - I hadn’t heard of it. Def recommend! From @dandq.bsky.social great stuff!

Combine Einstein (simple but not too simple) and @nigelblue.bsky.social (it's not about simplifying, it's about clarifying). Instead of simplifying q.b. and clarifying, you have a tool that forces you to go simpler and without options to clarify. It's unfixable, hence the cardification.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 💀May 8, 1904 Eadweard Muybridge died in Kingston upon Thames, England 🇬🇧 ~ 1875 he developed a system for motion photography from a series of frames & pioneered the study of motion in humans and animals --a precursor of moving pictures & animated graphics.

Some of the nice ideas that didn't make the cover of The Economist this week, and the one that did economist.com/newsletters/cover-story

Setting spotlights on @kennethfield.bsky.social and @nigelblue.bsky.social

And here it is in motion. Can you spot where it is that the horse has all 4 feet off the ground? Leland Stanford made a bunch of money on this bet; Muybridge provided the proof.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Apr 9, 1830 Eadweard Muybridge born in Kingston upon Thames, England 🇬🇧 Muybridge pioneered the use of photography in the study of motion, a precursor of moving pictures & animated graphics.

"charts have meaning that works for everyone"—Thank you Steven Heller! www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

today I'm making the welcome placard for next week's exhibition at Cooper Union, featuring an insane collection of AMAZING information designers: @nadiehbremer.com @jenchristiansen.com @datavandals.bsky.social @kennethfield.bsky.social @nigelblue.bsky.social @shirleywu.studio & many more

Background: in my last post, I speedwalked through millennia of science and history in the intersection of writing and art

An incredible explainer on the "tariff formula" from @felixsalmon.com @axios.com

#psy6135 An effective way to show change. Why does this work?

new on Chartography www.chartography.net/p/previewing...

here’s the cover of my new book…out later in the year!

DIAMONDS WERE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND—a classic 1982 TIME chart by @nigelblue.bsky.social—has arrived!

Like everyone - the @datavandals.bsky.social abandoned Twitter and have a profile here! Give us a follow - we have tons of awesome news to share soon!

graphic magic just arrived via @nigelblue.bsky.social 💙 Van taarten en balken [Of pies and bars]. 1996 🇳🇱

Have you read Nigel Holmes - Joyful infographics? Imo a mustread when doing dataviz 🙌 @nigelblue.bsky.social

What a year! www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/in...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Dec 22, 1945 Otto Neurath died in Oxford, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1924: Museum of Social Statistical Graphics and the ISOTYPE system, a method of showing social, technological, biological, and historical connections in pictorial form

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 22, 1880 Willard Cope Brinton born in West Chester, PA, USA 🇺🇸 1914: Pictograms to represent a series of numbers by icons (combining concepts of the bar graph and pictogram of varying size) ; heat maps and more-- 'Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts'

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Dec 20, 1838 Edwin A. Abbott born in Marylebone, Middlesex, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1884: In _Flatland_, he gave literary description of life in a 2D world for people living in a 3D world, thus prompting 3D people to think about the possibility of higher dimensions

Revisiting 'Designing Information' by Joel Katz, an idiosyncratic little gem of a book #dataViz

My advice is to start with the "OK To Skip" books. The rest are ok to skip. #dataviz

thanks to all new followers; will be posting more often now my new book is almost done!📊

Always a pleasure to read Neils insights, and this is a splendid review of Joyful Infographics by Nigel Holmes. Read both! 👩‍🏫 #dataviz #infograhics #illustration @theneilrichards.bsky.social @nigelblue.bsky.social

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: How do we bring joy to data visualisations? 📊 questionsindataviz.com/2024/09/10/h... Alternatively titled "What is visual prosody?" - a review of Joyful Infographics by @nigelblue.bsky.social

happy to say I'm doing a new book for CRC with Elliott Morsia (+ @albertocairo.bsky.social again as my consultative editor) it's about exercise and fitness: "Let's Get Infografit" (sorry, couldn't resist it!) as usual with my stuff, it's not proper dataviz, but it is very infographic📊

just got my copy of nightingale...fantastic! (and not just because I'm in it!... don't miss the amazing piece by Ally Levine about how she used cyanotypes) hearty and emotional congrats to all at the data visualization society on another great issue of the mag!📊

In separate legal rulings, Trump has been found to have committed rape, business fraud, and insurrection. And yet he remains the Republican presidential front runner. Don't ever tell me again that the GOP is the party of "family values" or "law and order."