What an amazing #Outlier2025 conference this year! Here are just a few of my highlights, out of the MANY talks and speakers I loved.

‘What if we started with ”what if”’? Excited to reimagine data visualization at Outlier virtually this year! 📊

After trying a few different tax filing systems, I highly recommend FreeTaxUSA. I used them this year and it was so easy and great and free for federal taxes and only $15 for filing state taxes.

National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.

This has been doing the rounds this week for its topic and interactivity, but reading it in detail today makes me admire the writing. It is so precise. It's a feat onto itself and part of the general elegance. flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

GO BIRDS!!! 🦅💚

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever... Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.

Loving this viz from The Little Book of Hygge, what a fun way to show a ton of data points on a small page by overlapping them

Instead of writing something that makes sense on our felt board, Taylor and I have started just taking the letters that are already there and anagram them into something else (one letter swap allowed)

We're reading Data Sketches for this month's DVS Readers' Club. The authors Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu will be joining us on Jan 25, so come ready with your questions during the Q&A session. Register: https://buff.ly/409TLxF

Data snake 🫶🐍 www.instagram.com/reel/DDaUmCs...

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

If you’d like the citation for that statement, it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5C report, which concluded:

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

I went to the DVS coworking event today to ideate on a data vis project… is it stupid to do a datavis on my personal carbon footprint? lmk

Did I get my nephew Encyclopedia Infographica for Christmas for him or was it because I wanted to read it? 🌋 📊

I walked outside today and it was 58°. In DECEMBER. Is anyone else distressed by this??

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

Accidentally fell asleep while listening to an audiobook and now I am on Chapter 5 and have no idea how much I need to rewind

Giorgia Lupi on collecting data - "What we decide to focus on kind of shapes your reality" www.youtube.com/live/VZ-cw76... 📊

We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes.com management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.

If you're working through your PhD in #dataviz or in a related field, come and share ideas, discuss your work, and make new connections. This event is open to all levels of experience. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dataviz-ph...

Plugged it discord, but posting our alt vis (alt #ieeevis ? ) from last year here too. Come for the incredibly good figure(s), stay for our enumeration of different conference formats that might sustain vis in light of the climate crisis arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15429

Both are true at the same time: - We have a dense network of post offices in Germany 🏤 - Coverage does not meet legal requirements in all regions Our data driven analysis of the situation, including a visit to one of the new automated post offices 📮. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

Want to create clear, user-focused, and measurable goals for your #dataviz📊 projects? Check out my mini Youtube series on the topic of my dissertation research, learning objectives for communicative data visualization. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Barkley Marathons but its where you start a research project at noon on March 28th and have to submit it to VIS by March 31st. Winners are anyone who has their paper accepted to the conference.

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Cross stitch data visualisation of the books I read in 2022.

A mashup

Still on that coffee cup grind ☕️

This article on snow days by Amy O'Kruk is wonderful, & the design details on the charts are *chef's kiss*. I'm a big fan of using topical iconography/imagery with charts when it makes sense. Using snow shovels as columns elevates this chart and makes it memorable. 📊 www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/u...

A dumb question but how do you make a poll on here

Gabby Merite and I are doing a newsletter! We're calling it Effect+Affect. You can sign up at effaff.com The idea: We think 📊 data design research is super cool. We use it in our own design work. But academic papers are Zzz and intimidating. So we're attempting to translate our favorites into...

Excited that my LEGO data visualization won the U-M round and is now onto the next round in the B1G data viz competition!!! 🎉 Check out all of the other viz here: btaa.org/research/lov... and if you are at a big ten university, please vote for me! 📊

I typed a map this morning.

I’m excited to share a data art project I’ve been working on this month! It’s a quilt made using the data of all the books I read in 2023 📊

We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers. 🧑‍🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads 🗓️ June 18 – Sept 1 💰 $7,200 stipend 📝 More details at this link! pudding.cool/career/cohort/

foggy! at the diag

Working on a Saturday morning drawing practice. American Robin, feeding on sumac berries.

I’m doing a 30 day challenge to draw the same thing every single day. Here’s my favorite coffee cup so far!

Hello bluesky and happy new year