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...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is so big you can see it from 850,000 miles away via the DSCOVR EPIC satellite in Lagrange-1 point (the zoomed image is from MODIS).

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

NEW: The largest map I've made at the @financialtimes.com, highlighting the tragic events in Valencia. @barneyjopson.bsky.social report looks into the failed implementation of risk reduction plans, building on known flood zones and failure to heed warnings on the day ft.com/content/6199... #dataviz

Sea level rise is skyrocketing in the U.S. South. Scientists are beginning to understand way. Happy to play a part in this awesome piece with colleagues @johnmuyskens.bsky.social, Simon Ducroquet, Kevin Crowe, and @bananafish.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

NEW: How China is setting up shop in Mexico Our visual story explores the increasingly close trade relationship that is causing concern in Washington ig.ft.com/china-mexico...

This animation I made for a recent project shows the changes in ice extent over North America since the last glacial maximum (roughly 18k years). Each frame was hand drawn using Procreate.

The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day by 2030, new research shows "The fact that the Arctic sea ice cover has changed so significantly that [its loss in] 2030 is even a remote possibility shows how much change there has already been in the Arctic environment” on.ft.com/3DgyKJK

Spotify wrapped cartographer's edition

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...

There's now so many awesome #geospatial people here it's hard to keep track! 🤩 Here's a thread of some of my favourite starter packs so far - let me know what I've missed! 🛰️ Earth Observation & remote sensing: go.bsky.app/4PMRhNL 🌏 GIS: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6 @milos-makes-maps.bsky.social (1/n)

I’m now officially one of the journalists on Bluesky telling people currently using Bluesky what a Bluesky is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 15: My data Quick fun project: I was curious if the spare coins I had would tell much about me - where i'm from, where i live, and where I’ve traveled... So I stacked all the coins on my table and overlaid a European map, here's what it showed!

Hey people! If you are into #geospatial anysis and data #visualization, I created a #GIS starter pack to help you connect with accounts with valuable resources in the field. Check it out here and please suggest new names to expand it: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6

#30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Time and space With the 2024-25 Vendée Globe sailing race now underway, I’ve brought the 2020-21 race to life by animating the tracks of all 33 competitors, with the winner's track highlighted

#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Arctic One year of MODIS daily mosaic images Did you know optical satellites like MODIS usually don't capture images over the poles in winter due to lack of sunlight? The "no data" hole grows as we near the winter solstice - and starts closing once daylight returns

My starter pack on #maps 😍 who am I missing? #dataviz 📊🗺️ go.bsky.app/222AVDQ

I'd love to connect with anyone working in satellite remote sensing/earth observation! 🛰️🌏 I've started a list of everyone I've found so far - please let me know if you're missing from the list, or if there's anyone else I should add! go.bsky.app/4PMRhNL

With the latest expansion of Bluesky more and more people are looking for reliable news - here is a starter pack of #BBCjournos - journalists and freelancers who make excellent #BBC content and worth checking out go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD

#30DayMapChallenge Day 6: Raster Ship density mapped with Bonne Projection 🖤