NYC’s newest billionaire status symbol: a double-wide townhouse. Ultra-wealthy buyers are combining 2–3 historic townhomes into mega-mansions designed to feel like suburban estates — in the middle of the Manhattan. Here's the latest with @sooophie.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The list of why I should switch to Positron keeps getting longer.

Have you seen our Olympic medal count visualization? BTW: To generate the Olympic medal scarfs, we render it on HTML canvas. A powerful drawing technology, but inherently non-interactive. We wanted the medals to be clickable. So: How do you render an interactive canvas? A technical deep-dive #Svelte

Who says you can't offer the medal table as a knitting pattern for people to knit themselves? #dataviz gift link: www.spiegel.de/sport/olympi...

A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...

The dual mogul competitions are now underway at the Olympic Games. Time for a visual explainer of what is arguably the most spectacular Olympic sport. Article (gift link / first 10 visitors): www.spiegel.de/sport/olympi...

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

Well, let's say that the cartographic quality of the logo roughly corresponds to the meaningfulness of the undertaking as a whole.

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

You can ignore science, but science will never ignore you. Measles incidence in the United States.

Darker skin colour, changing facial expression from composed to crying, straight from the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW | India is forging a different #energytransition path to China 🇮🇳⚡ Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut — using cheap solar to meet rising demand, relying far less on fossil fuels, and electrifying transport earlier. https://loom.ly/UFDLamw

Being born is a roll of the dice. Most of us got insanely lucky. Imagine you had to roll again, how would you want the world to look? www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

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

☀️ #dataviz

Working with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/... In a benchmark against, {sf}....

Ein kleiner Einblick in die Arbeit als Datenjournalist - und was es technisch und organisatorisch braucht, um mehr als 1100 AfD-Zitate zu digitalisierten und interaktiv aufzubereiten. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

It’s real. 📊 Source: www.cfr.org/expert-brief...

Unwahrscheinlich, aber falls noch jemand spontan ausfällt würde ich mich über ein Ticket echt freuen 🤓 #39c3ticket #39c3

🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝 Google search interest shows a stable pattern: 🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve 🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier #MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁 📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024) #dataviz #ggplot2

NEW: The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions Big tech is spending hundreds of billions on data centres in the US to fuel the development of artificial intelligence. Our latest visual story explores the main challenge that these grand plans face: access to power. ig.ft.com/ai-power/

Im Brief von Friedrich Merz an Ursula von der Leyen zum Verbrenner-Aus ist von „hocheffizienten Verbrennern“ die Rede. Auf die Frage, was darunter zu verstehen sei, gab es in der Regierungs-PK heute erst langes Schweigen - und dann diesen bemerkenswerten Satz des Regierungssprechers: (1/2)

Scheitert an diesen Kurven die Koalition? @schieritz.bsky.social und ich mit einem Deep Dive zum Rentenstreit. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Questionable Rmd-rendering after installing the latest RStudio version.

Completely crazy events make for completely crazy headlines. "Luis Rubiales pelted with eggs by Luis Rubiales at the presentation of a book about Luis Rubiales." www.11freunde.de/internationa....

I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen, @emmakumer.bsky.social and @jeremybmerrill.com) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

How much more expensive breakfast has become in Germany due to inflation. Our inflation explainer starts with this playful little tool. #dataviz #ddj www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

What would happen if the Amazon rainforest collapsed? Our look at deforestation and feedback loops. Also, the perfect occasion to make use of our new MapLibre/Protomaps scroller component. #maps #dataviz #ddj www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Wer sich über die Zukunft des Journalismus Gedanken machen möchte, dem seien unsere aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen ans Herz gelegt.

Auch Carsten Schneider verbreitet im Bericht aus Berlin die Falschinformation, dass Wärmepumpen mit 12 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr gefördert werden. Dabei sind es in Wirklichkeit eher 3 Milliarden Euro. (1/3) www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Dass die Regierung Gaskunden mit 3,4 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr subventionieren will, ist in Zeiten der Klimakrise ein Skandal. Aber dass dies mit Geldern geschehen soll, die zur Finanzierung der Energiewende und des Klimaschutzes vorgesehen sind, schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus.

Today, we asked our readers to place themselves on a scale from hopeful (Hoffnung) to fearful (Angst) when it comes to climate change. I know, not representative sample and everything, but this is more devastating than expected.

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

A look at the devastating power loss across Jamaica following the historic crossing of Hurricane Melissa, captured by NOAA-21.

Very sad data journalist job posting

In einer schonungslosen Investigativrecherche findet der Ex-Bild-Chef heraus: Migranten zerstören das deutsche Bäckerhandwerk weil sie kein Grau- und Vollkornbrot essen und Restaurants mit deutscher Speisekarte, weil sie keinen Saumagen essen wollen. Und Karstadt haben sie irgendwie auch getötet.

New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks). 👉 github.com/rogerbeecham... #RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat

There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness. youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4

Dream job alert in eigener Sache! 👇 jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/12...

Wir suchen für unser Ressort Daten & Visualisierungen eine:n Front-End-Entwickler:in. Schwerpunktmäßig im Bereich JavaScript, Svelte, D3. Ausschreibung: jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/12... Was wir so machen: www.spiegel.de/thema/daten-... Gerne weitersagen und bei Fragen einfach melden!

This is how the war in Ukraine has changed. For this story, we used Gaussian splatting for the first time, which creates a unique aesthetic. What do you think? www.spiegel.de/ausland/ukra...

Das Rebhuhn ist der Vogel des Jahres. Glückwünsch! Auch an das übermotivierte Männchen, dass bei uns mal morgens wiederholt mit Schwung gegen die Scheibe gerannt ist, um sein Spiegelbild zu vertreiben. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social climate monitoring application #Climate Pulse has been updated. Same climate monitoring data with new features and better layout. 🌏🌊⚒️🧪 User feedback always welcome so let us know what you would like to see updated in the next version: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Some beautiful Datawrapper hacks from our article on the MSCI World. And yes, technically those are custom choropleth maps 😀 #dataviz www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

I keep repeating myself: the anti-vax movement is extremely stupid. The fact that this is an ideological topic rather than a simple scientific problem is insane.

More basement findings. This time a German school atlas from 1897. Below the globes is an illustration with the highest peaks. It lists Gaurishankar as the highest with 8810 m. Looks like they mixed it up with Mt. Everest...(1/3)

Found in my parents' basement. #dataviz from the 1932 Olympics

2019 hatte ich mit einer Modellrechnung ermittelt, dass sich mit einem Tempolimit bis zu 140 Todesfälle jährlich vermeiden ließen. Jetzt ist eine Studie mit ähnlichen Daten, weiteren Variablen und ausgefeilterer Statistik erschienen. Deren Ergebnis 58-89 vermeidbare Todesfälle jährlich. (1/2)

More outstanding maps in this Mercator / 'Correct The Map' explainer by Reuters 😍 www.reuters.com/graphics/AFR...