Love good charts & maps? 👀 #DataViz Weekly is back with new data viz picks worth a look: > Time with others @flowingdata.com > NYC parking lots housing potential @tdubolyou.bsky.social > China's rise in trade @ourworldindata.org > AI questions beyond tech earnings @bloomberg.com See it on our blog.

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction. tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/ #NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz

I voted for Tobi over Thiel but I dont think he’ll win

Black Americans navigated Jim Crow through guides like the Green Books by sharing their experiences. Know a Green Book establishment? Share your memories, and upload photos or documents. Your contribution makes the archive complete. greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

The tragedy of this province is that we have all the things conceivably needed to be one of the greatest places to live on earth, but our governing class is relentlessly obsessed with mediocrity.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

I want to stress again that California is not in a situation where it's gaining tech jobs at a slower rate than the rest of the country (like 2021/2022), but is outright losing tech jobs as the rest of the US gains Cali is down 75k tech jobs from peak & nearly 20k from pre-COVID

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

How many housing units could fit on the surface lots of NYC? I mapped them and estimated based recent construction. tdubolyou.github.io/nyc-lots/ #NYC #map #mapping #sveltejs #D3 #maplibre #dataviz

Fun little exploratory project. I mapped transit oriented surface parking lots in NYC and applied recent development densities to estimate housing potential. Link at the end. #NYC #Planning #Dataviz #mapping #maps #map #housing

Imagining that the climate battle is about *information* -- that those who have good information will act; that those who aren't acting must be lacking information -- has been utterly disastrous for decades now, but advocates & pols can't seem to break out of it.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

I’m not sure he understands it’s quite helpful for the LPC when American Fascists mimic the rhetoric of our Conservative Party.

Increasingly find myself listening to @drfeifei.bsky.social as a source of credible (understatement!) and insightful info about AI. This episode of @lennysan.bsky.social’s podcast is a great example. open.spotify.com/episode/35Aa...

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

When the province took over the Toronto District School Board, it also took over the subsidiary that manages the TDSB’s $20 billion worth of land. As @wendyglauser.bsky.social‬ writes, critics fear repercussions not just for schools, but also for whole neighbourhoods. thelocal.to/tdsb-takeove...

Like this motherfucker was cooking with this one

A good enough reason to spend lots of time doing art is just that it’s fun to do art

My first Starter Pack! The Canadian urbanism and planning community on here is growing. Give these folks a follow. Some well known faces … and some you should get to know! (please re-post!) go.bsky.app/AEYL7FZ

Heading into a glorious time for local fruit in #Toronto. Peaches, pears and plums all looking good. www.mapto.ca/maps/the-fru... #topoli #ediblecity #map #mapping #gis #dataviz

The news on 9/11…

It’s open! Feels like there should have been a party. Did I miss the party?

New from me at TVO, on Toronto's disappointing sixplex vote and the prospects for the feds and Mayor Chow to get it back on track. Spoiler: she'd still need to use strong-mayor powers, but not in the way you might think. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

And wonder why their kids can't afford to live near them, and why the local school closed so their grandkids couldn't live nearby anyway, etc etc etc

Consumer spending and after-tax incomes both fell in May, adjusted for inflation. #NumbersDay Full data: www.bea.gov/news/2025/pe...

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

How quickly does a neighborhood change? Exposition Park has been ground zero for double duplex development in LA, with more development happening here than anywhere else in LA. This image illustrates development that occurred in the two square mile section immediately West of USC:

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

What happens on Parliament Hill can feel far removed from people's daily lives. @thelocal.to is doing what it does best, covering this election from the neighbourhood level. Get to know your candidates; they're meant to represent you. thelocal.to/spring-2025/

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

Across the US, cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68k jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? See SCIMaP, a website that my colleague Emly Falk and her team have created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. Learn and share at scienceimpacts.org

How Old Is Your City’s Skyline? Map of US & Canada What do you notice? brilliantmaps.com/skyline-a...

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/

January 5, 2025 vs March 25, 2025 338canada.com/federal.htm

The fall of HBC got me thinking about all the empty spaces above & below ground in Toronto & what might become of them. Maybe shops, maybe places for culture. Discotheques in the PATH? A bar on the 6th floor of an old dep't store? Other countries go up and down just fine...my Star of Tor Ont column.

Our online articles & analysis are free to read. The print magazine, 4x a year, helps support that. Think of it as our weird substack or patreon model. Shopping at the store (in person/online) also supports the journalism. If it wasn't for the store Spacing would likely not exist today.

@airbrycki.bsky.social: The good news is that there's a lot of momentum at the state and local level to address affordability challenges, and multifamily completions are still strong, which has slowed asking rent growth.

the study on safety of single stair buildings by pew charitable trusts and the center for building in north america (@stephenjacobsmith.com) is now live www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

Blessings upon city and county GIS offices that make road and sidewalk polygons available, so that I can calculate just how much of a city has been sacrificed to the almighty automobile. (Looks like about 8% of Cincinnati.)

Love this piece on the German economy. Well structured story, accessible information and visually stunning. by: @deabankova.bsky.social, @anuragrao.bsky.social, @pkddapacific.bsky.social and Maria Martinez at @graphics.reuters.com @reuters.com www.reuters.com/graphics/GER...

Is flying getting more dangerous? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com crunches the numbers and argues the opposite is true. Gift link: on.ft.com/41chEoH

The ocean, but it’s made of trees

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Why isn't #onpoli's housing supply keeping up with housing need? The new expert report commissioned by my team @EnviroDefence shows Ontario government restrictions on mid-rise apartment buildings have been making it impossible to end the housing shortage.🧵👇 environmentaldefence.ca/2024/11/13/n...