This is fantastic. Engaging people with data through game play. Also has that very Gapminder-ish quality of challenging assumption. Love it!

It's official 🎉 Visualising Climate 2026 is here! visualisingclimate.com First international conference of its kind, it'll bring together artists, scientists, journalists all moved by the same desire to better communicate our changing climate 🌍 🗓️ Join us in Bologna, Nov 4-6 #dataviz #climatecrisis

Scientists have just unveiled the most detailed data yet of the terrain hidden under Antarctica’s ice. We mapped it and compared it to the previously best available data for our story with @markpoynting.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The global warming trend continued in 2025. Each of the past 11 years (2015–2025) has been among the 11 warmest on record. Explore more data from #CopernicusClimate in the Global Climate Highlights 2025. #GCH2025 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... @ecmwf.int

Which country consumes the most beer per person? Think you can guess it in 5 tries or less? Have a try at chartle.cc

New exciting update to chartle.cc 📈 You can now use the *Explore data* mode after finishing a game to find out what all the other grey lines represent. This has been requested by many of you, thanks for all the feedback! Let us know what you think!

New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output. Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Which country holds the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves? Think you can guess it? Have a try at chartle.cc

#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking 🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа 🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue. 🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024. #cartographie #map #europe #europa

This has been such a lovely way to start class in my vis course over the past few weeks.

Can you guess the country in red just by analysing the chart? Have a try at chartle.cc

Can you guess which country suddenly stopped all its nuclear power generation in the early 2010s, and then slowly restarted it? Have a try at chartle.cc

The Israeli military is placing large yellow blocks to delineate the newly established Yellow Line in Gaza - issue is, it’s off by over 500 meters in some areas, shrinking the Palestinian safe area. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do you enjoy playing chartle.cc? We’re opening up to the community! Are you a scientist, journalist, researcher or just a data-enthusiast and would like to submit your own data (it should be a country-based time series)? Get in touch with us - we’d love to feature it!

New visual story: Bird migration is one of nature’s greatest spectacles — and scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into how new threats are reshaping these epic journeys. Follow the remarkable travels of three birds as they fly across the planet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Can you guess which country went from producing almost 70% of its electricity from coal in the 1980s to just 0.82% in 2024? Think you know? Try it at chartle.cc

October 11 SkySat imagery from @planet.com shows a column of smoke rising from the Sheikh Ejleen Waste Water Treatment Plant after the IDF withdrew from the base they established at the plant. SkySat imagery from October 7 shows IDF vehicles and temporary structures set up inside the plant.

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri... Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social

Daily Chartle player? We’ve got an update for you 👀 You can now see how everyone else scored when you finish the game (this is today's game). Keep the feedback coming, it’s helping us make chartle.cc better!

Can you guess which country has the most hospital beds per capita in the world? Have a try by playing at chartle.cc

Starting a 3-month pilot today with the BBC’s brand-new satellite data team! We'll be focusing on using remote sensing data for news stories and longer-term investigations 🛰️ 🌍 Got tips, an upcoming paper or data, or just ideas you'd like to share with us? DM or email me at [email protected]

It's been a week since we launched @chartle.cc with @adnaanj.bsky.social and we had an amazing start! - Average of 700 users/day - Record 1.2K users yesterday - From 78 countries - 66% win overall - 2m 18s average engagement Thank you to all who played + shared the game Any feedback, send our way!

A chart-themed game in your datavis dispatch this week! @chartle.cc 📈

Today's chartle game is almost exactly like 📈

A fun chart game that primarily sources its data from Our World in Data!

Which country in the world has the highest share of women in parliament? (and has since 2003..!) Can you solve it? Have a try at chartle.cc

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

Parts of the Mediterranean Sea reached 30C this week, much earlier than usual, raising fears for marine life. For some areas, this is 6 or 7C warmer than usual at this time of year. Our story with more maps by @markpoynting.bsky.social and me here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite. Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:

Excited to be at the Living Planet Symposium #LPS25 next week! I’ll be co-presenting with @janatausch.bsky.social on Thursday afternoon, sharing how we make innovative climate data visualisations in the BBC & FT newsrooms. Let me know if you’re around and want to grab a coffee and chat!

Aujourd’hui dans @lesechosfr.bsky.social, un graphique sur le cours du cacao… réalisé en chocolat ! Une photoviz faite dans la journée, pas d’IA, que du kiff

BBC Verify is hiring for an exciting new role: Senior Infographic Designer in the digital live reporting space - to visualise verification, bring satellite data to life and create everything from charts to complex diagrams. Hybrid working, up to £55k apply by 10 Jun careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-S...

An intense marine heatwave has developed in the UK and Ireland - with anomalies of 5C found in at least one area. The impacts probably aren't as severe as it would be in summer, but it's a worrying sign of what is likely to happen more often as climate change continues to warm our oceans.

🚨 EXCITING NEWS KLAXON 🚨 My first book THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON, based on my London Borough maps series and co-written with the amazing @mattfromlondon.bsky.social, is published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social in October! 🥳 🛒 UK customers can preorder from: www.batsfordbooks.com/book/the-bor... 1/5 🧵⬇️

New chart heavy story: As the conclave is about to start, we explored how it became the most global and unpredictable in history, a legacy of Pope Francis

We're only in April, but it's already the worst UK wildfire season on record Over 29,200 hectares burnt so far, fuelled by an unusually dry spring, as satellite data shows

BBC Verify investigation by @olgar.bsky.social , me, Olga Malchevska and Matt Murphy into exactly how thousands of homes in Mariupol are being seized and transferred to Russians. Ukrainians can try to get their homes back but there’s a catch… www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

We found evidence of the IDF setting up watchtowers, creating roads & more within the borders of Syria + Lebanon – with Samuel Granados & Aaron Boxerman www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This dataviz is absolutely amazing 😍 Global bird species' conservation status displayed as a massive flock! By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731... #dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅

‪The Bellingcat challenge is back (and set by me this week)! 👉 challenge.bellingcat.com 👈 This week's challenge uses satellite images taken with Landsat 8 - but the colours aren't always 'normal'... 🛰️ Can you complete them? 🔍

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, has now run aground in shallow waters about 80km from South Georgia island. I've mapped bathymetry data from @bas.ac.uk in Blender with the iceberg’s latest location to understand how this unfolded. With @georginarannard.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 New job alert! 🚨 Come join me at the BBC to find stories using satellite data! This is a remote sensing scientist job applied to news, where you'll use machine learning and build tools to analyse satellite imagery for our in-house investigations. Happy to chat or answer any questions!

NEW: Global sea-ice has fallen to a record low, breaking the previous minimum set in 2023. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does China really “operate” the Panama Canal, as Trump repeatedly claimed? We've broken down the facts and mapped China's influence around the canal to find out

NEW: Can Trump make bitcoin useful? President Trump's embrace of crypto has helped supercharge bitcoin's price to eye-watering six-figure highs. Investors are excited by the prospect of a national bitcoin stockpile, but how such a reserve would work is unclear. ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

Without a doubt the most authoritative and scientific map projections alignment chart there is

What would happen if key ocean currents that bring warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic collapse? Temperatures in northern Europe would drop drastically, studies suggest. Our full story on the risks of AMOC collapse: www.bbc.com/news/article...

New @planet.com satellite image shows massive oil spill stretching across the Kerch Strait, after severe weather damaged two oil tankers. ​​Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has leaked, with the spill now spreading to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...