We are trying to create a list of in-copyright novels that contain maps. If you know of some, drop them in the thread below! 🧵👇

996 getting a lot of attention these days but there's the other extreme: Focusing so much on People First that you end up hugging yourself to death.

Enjoying @nadiehbremer.com's CHART (and the sun 😁). It's a great book — Nadieh's work is amazing anyways, and I love how generously she shares her tricks and recipes. www.routledge.com/CHART-Design...

Distinct color names are important for data visualization when you're presenting so that you don't have someone say "What about the green bar" and you have to say "You mean this green" and they say "No the other green." meodai.github.io/color-name-a...

Ooh - some great #dataviz resources in here

I asked AI to explain the differences in models in meme form and I told it to explain it to me in peak gen x and it is, I think, the first true piece of AI art ever created.

The older I get the more I think @danz68.bsky.social might have been right about everything.

OMG #visualized will be back!! Visualized share.google/tOOaw9XSEVa4...

So wild to me that the most unimaginative logical positivists (Silicon Valley tech companies) created the most pure form of postmodern text (LLMs) that’s hated by self-identified postmodernists (academics) because it problemitizes objective truth (something no one believes in anymore). #hermeneutics

Thread: 1. Signal was a photo and army magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940 through 1945. These maps and infographics are from the Hungarian edition.

Sankey diagrams are getting perilously close to being renamed online relationship success diagrams.

What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.

Reminder that the pope is catholic and west point is part of the military-industrial complex. Of course a military academy for producing military leaders of an imperial military is supposed to indoctrinate what do you think indoctrination is? What do words even mean any more?

For #EarthDay I made a subway map version of the San Lorenzo River watershed. The San Lorenzo River is my local river here in Santa Cruz and I've always felt a greater connection to nature and the Earth when I've created abstract representations of its systems.

I love that we accept charts like the one on the left at face value when the one on the right exist.

Looks like I'm going to get to revisit design principles for animated #dataviz. Any good resources out there that folks rely on for animation in data visualization? emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav... emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...

Github is developing the #dataviz section of their design system. I particularly like the practical approach taken in the color section where it acknowledges that traditional accessibility issues simply cannot be addressed in viz using non-viz UI approaches. primer.style/product/ui-p...

Okay, I believe the evidence that we can't make a $600 iPhone in the United States but now you're telling me we can't affordably make a $40,000 bag?

Please if you're an academic thinking about how you might restore academia after this, take the time to see how university's hollowing themselves out (grade inflation, PhD overproduction, administrative bloat, taking advantage of adjuncts, investment banking) made them so vulnerable to this attack.

It's clear dataviz is at an inflection point. Essays by @shirleywu.studio and @moritzstefaner.bsky.social have been thought provoking in many ways, but haven't discussed dataviz from a business perspective. Let's discuss! Full essay: www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...

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Why does @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy randomize the color of the layer when you load it? ArcGIS used to do this, too, right? Is it just a sort of hack to prevent the same color being used? But it's unpredictable. And weird. And jarring. Who decided it should happen this way?

I remember talking to @jasonforrest.bsky.social six years ago about making a magazine and then working with Medium and all the editing and it's so amazing to see how he grew it from nothing to this great resource for the #dataviz community! Thank you, Jason! nightingaledvs.com/my-6-years-a...

behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair

HN comments for @shirleywu.studio's last blog provide a fascinating glimpse into the minds of definitely non-datavis people: Datavis is done, simplicity should be everything, web as a platform was a bad idea... Is this what potential clients think? Is this where the crisis in datavis comes from?

As AI gums up your entire life with anime knockoff versions of every meaningful image you ever saw remember that it's still just as shitty at #dataviz.

You can get my book even though it still says "pre-order"! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... (for a 30% discount, use code P327 on the PU Press website)!

two weeks ago I published www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202... re: plateau in innovation I've felt in #dataviz last few years. I've been furiously working on the follow-up (so many thoughts!) & it'll finally be out next Monday 🎉 if you'd like an email notification: www.shirleywu.studio/notebook

“The carousel of progress has actually been dismantled.” @infowetrust.com at his launch of the remastered edition of Info We Trust.

That's it folks, the AI will be unstoppable now.

My theory is that constructing an interesting story is a different sort of planning problem than writing a computer program (which these models are good at), because a story is *intentionally incomplete.* As @vtobin.bsky.social argues in Elements of Surprise, a story is actually a confidence game. +

I'll be there!

In talking to @wcareri.com we came up with the ultimate way to filter out AI written content: Ask them to include some diagrams that relate to the points they're making in the piece. Because AI can't make good diagrams, it acts as an excellent filter.

I wrote something on the state of and outlook for indie dataviz. "Crisis? What crisis? — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025" truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

US counties are so dumb...

Giuliani, Eric Adams, Donald Trump—New York real estate and politics (what’s the difference right?) really is just cartoonishly corrupt isn’t it?

If you know anyone who wants to write about their experience with the closing of 538 for the @datavizsociety.bsky.social's magazine, please get in touch.

Found it! medium.economist.com/mistakes-wev... Second example: Fit as a butcher's dog.

Remember to be careful when you use a multiaxis chart that the axes are not so completely out of alignment that you unintentionally tell a story with the data in a way that draws lessons from events that only happen 3 or fewer times a decade.

ChatGPT knows how to read connected scatterplots. That's more than I can say for most of you...

Maybe we can heal the rift in our country via our shared hatred of Nate Silver. Cool chart though (that someone else made).

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Monochromaticking!

Concerning!

Troubling!

The quote tweet is such trash it's either dunking or some kind of pap that basically means "I like this!" and you do it because you don't want to get buried in the replies and you want your name on what is essentially a retweet.

I want a dataviz academy with Nathan as its Defense Against the Dark Charts professor.

For a glimmer of optimism, I want to think that in a world where: - the tools we use to create #dataviz are more accessible - we engage with data more in our daily lives - creative and community forms are more celebrated ...there is opportunity. www.datavisualizationsociety.org/fourth-wave

I'm very bitter about recent political events, which has rubbed many of you the wrong way, and I get that. Here's my offer for a future: We invest in teaching people how to understand data and make them better stewards of their own data-driven lives and societies. nightingaledvs.com/fourth-wave-...