new NatGeo information graphics arrived in the mail

I just added lots of new content to my website! lisacharlottemuth.com → #dataviz projects & articles I've worked on at @datawrapper.de in the past years → a new "Events" page with information about the Data Vis Meetup, the Data Vis Book Club, and the Unwrapped conference → an updated About me page

Minimalistic mapping with isolines 😍 It shows Europe's average maximum temperature in July. The closer the lines are, the more complex the orography, with large temperature changes in small areas, such as mountain regions. Each step between two thermolines is 2ºC. #dataviz #mapping #rstats

🐟 This is one of the weirder charts in my collection of examples: a set of fish icons to compare funds. I use it when I talk about visual variables. This chart uses SIZE as a visual variable in 15 different ways, to show 15 different aspects of a fund. 1/4

My colleagues at NYT came to my desk with cameras to make these videos. I'm so grateful to work in a place like this, doing what I love.

the roads of DC, colored by the closest metro line! using road/station data from Open Data DC and rendered with @threejs.org #maps #washingtondc #threejs

random slides from my lecture yesterday, titled ‘Intuitive Thinking and Computational Space.’

The Catropolis metro. A subway system unlike any other: Every stop is a #cat breed, every line a separate family of felines. A unique and fun map to adorn your cat lover's home 😻 www.studiolegenda.com/produ... 🔹

My love letter to the genre of speculative evolution, The Practical Guide for the Amateur Exonaturalist, is available now on DriveThruRPG! Envision alien biospheres and their incredible denizens through creative prompts and exercises. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Many Hungarian works are longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Award this year. @krisztinaszucs.bsky.social @editgyenge.bsky.social Milán Janosov, Misi Minkó and Eszter Katona, Melinda Sipos and Mátyás Fusz. And my book. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?aca...

I defy you not to be entranced by this super awesome Mexican map centered around the COSMOGRAPHIC CLOCK! www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

It's been a _very_ long time, but I finally wrote an extensive full dataviz design creation blog post again! 🙌 You can read about all the ups and downs, what worked, when it spectacularly failed, of trying to create the GitHub Top Contributor Network here: www.visualcinnamon.com/2025/01/gith...

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.)

NEW: The How We Made It part of our Climate Graphic: Explained weekly newsletter is now available online. Find out what goes into making the Climate Graphic of the Week on.ft.com/41v6YD9

This is the sort of cartography modern tools cant *really* do well, simply because there is no antidote to a staggering amount of labor here:

This new Data Vis Dispatch is full of maps – and we love maps. But it also includes annotated lyrics, multiple lines, bracelets (yes!), and complex interactive visualizations. See them on our blog: https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-february-11-2025/

My latest project lets you explore the entire commit history of any GitHub repo ✨ Obviously, D3.js was one of the 1st repos I tested. You can clearly see the 3000+ commits made by its creator @ocks.org! But also @fil.rezo.net & many others. nbremer.github.io/ORCA/commit-...

Nice looking graph from @financialtimes.com: “Never ever make predictions” Implied rates forecasts over time, and what rates have actually done:

My first post on Substack. That was my year 2024.

The glasses are clinking, the countdown is running, but you’re still thinking about data visualizations? We got you covered with our list of lists of 2024 data vis. Check out personal favorites, portfolios, and award-winning vis from 2024 blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-31-2024/

My personal projects from 2024: krisztinaszucs.com/blog/2024122... #dataviz

How to create data visualization by making a few tweaks to a perfectly fine table: krisztinaszucs.com/blog/2024121... #dataviz

The Winter Solstice occurs today. This is the longest night and shortest day of the year. If you're in Budapest, you can find my "How long are the nights" prints at Ajándék Terminál (in Mammut 2) until Dec 24. Full project ➡ plotparade.com/gallery_sunr... #WinterSolstice #dataviz

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁  https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

Fargo, Severance, Black Mirror, Atlanta, Master of None, Euphoria – they all left their fans waiting for three years or more between seasons. In fact, we're waiting longer than ever for TV shows to return, as @lisacmuth.bsky.social shows in her Weekly Chart: blog.datawrapper.de/waittime-for...

This I what a series of paths created by 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over looks like. Science is beautiful. Obviously they used the same few bicycles for the data rather than 800 individual one. Source: buff.ly/3Cnb4PP

Good morning. Check out this absolutely delicious flow diagram of freight movements on the Mississippi river => www.loc.gov/resource/g40...

PSA: Alphabetical order is often bad for geodata! I took the data from the WSJ article below and used a more natural geographical order; it makes it possible to see regional measles epidemics in 1935-36, the western polio outbreak, etc. Interactive notebook. observablehq.com/d/53c696e100...

Here is an animation of the percent of precipitation that falls as snow throughout the year. [Note: some of the summer snow colors are erroneous artifacts from the calculations I performed - not bad data.]

I'm immensely proud of all the amazing live-updating graphics the @data.ft.com team published over the last 48 hours (and continues to publish). But there's still a thrill to seeing them appear in print the next day:

🎉 New: Create arrow (aka "swing") maps in Datawrapper! Just in time for U.S. elections, arrow maps show positive & negative data as arrows pointing in different directions. Perfect for visualizing increase and decrease — or swing between two categories 🗳️ https://blog.datawrapper.de/arrow-maps/

I will never tire of Paula Scher's maps www.pentagram.com/news/paula-s...

Fantastic visualization of the decline of coal power across OECD countries from the Ember team 🔌💡: ember-climate.org/insights/res...

Now that bluesky lets me upload #dataviz videos 📊, here are some from the Olympic Games

Thread on charts for mobile phones 🤳 📊 I'm sharing a few tips from a recent project where we adapted our own charts, initially designed for a US letter sized report. This is the cover page of the PDF report (the title was our suggestion 🖋️). 1/🧵

I've not done #tidytuesday in a longggg time and this week's dataset on dialogues from Shakespeare plays was a nice way to get back into it. Nothing too complicated, just a bump chart tracking the amount of dialogue for major characters. Everything in R with ggplot #dataviz #rstats

This is adorable.

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🎉 We’ve received 294 responses to the 2024 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti202-bsky

This might be the most illustration-heavy chart I've ever created. It's also editable! Try it here ➡️ plotparade.com/55_window/

New editable chart for PlotParade! Try it here 🌓 plotparade.com/54_planet/

Following the previous theme of birds and pie charts, this is an alternative option if you have more than just one value. Try it here plotparade.com/53_paper/ 🐦🍄🐟

The tricky part of this #dataviz was figuring out how the body of the bird will look like with very small or large values. It looks good with 42% but can I make the visualization work with any value? 🐦 plotparade.com/52_bird/

I wanted to create a quick and fun #dataviz, so here comes the latest editable chart for PlotParade. I have never created a pie chart with d3.js before this 😅 Try it here ➡️ plotparade.com/52_bird/

I take zero credit for any of this. If it isn't obvious I'm a bit obsessive about following graphic design & data vis. Krisztina Szűcs @krisztinaszucs.bsky.social is behind these and is just astonishingly talented. Krisztina I love your work Few more examples below. PERFECT for the essay tone

as an aside. I am STOKED by the visuals for the bipolar article. and all the analysis is done. I just don't have a hook for the thing yet