Loved this. Last year, I taught a course on building websites but the focus was on cultivating the IndieWeb ethos and principles in our handmade digital spaces. I loved what all of them came up with. This is our showcase: web2025-gallery.netlify.app Course material: teaching.aman.bh/web2025

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

Absolutely stunning piece with a great mix of sound, #dataviz, and animation.

Happy 2026! 🎆 My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing. I’m soft-launching our Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, you can be an early supporter before the official launch Monday! patreon.com/DSLC #RStats #DataBS

In this post I break down the process of how I post-processed my #ggplot charts 📊 to look like they were embroidered into cloth. If you liked this effect, try it out on your own charts as well! Please let me know if something isn't clear. #rstats aman.bh/blog/2025/cr...

A thread of my 2025 blog posts - including 14 posts about #RStats, #TidyTuesday, #QuartoPub and more! January 2025: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/colours...

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 If you want to learn about: 🎨 Monochrome colour palettes 📊 Designing better black & white visualisations 🛠️ Rethinking single-colour chart design Read this ➡️ nrennie.rbind.io/blog/monochr... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2 #RLadies

I returned to the personal web in 2025 after many years spent contributing to algorithmic social media platforms and SEO-focused WordPress blogs. Some thoughts on this, and why the personal web has given me hope for the future of the internet: stephvee.ca/blog/indiewe... #blog #blogging #indieweb

My partner created her art account for the first time and I couldn't be happier! Her first comic still has me chuckling. #comicsky She is at: www.instagram.com/rhepository/

Put together a little web game from an archive of 13,000+ The Indian Express front pages dating back to 1933. Can you guess the year from old newspaper headlines? It's a lot tougher to play than I thought, but enjoyed reading so many old front pages! pressguessr.com

Rhea and I have been tracking our @nytimes.com word games (Wordle, Connections and the Mini) for the past two years. I decided to analyze our 4,200 gameplays with #rstats to determine a winner and made some festively embroidered charts with ggplot. Have a read. #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2025/tw...

#rstats folks, how do you figure out the positions for your annotations/labels or other arbitrarily positioned text on top of your plot? I have to fiddle around with xy numbers for far too long to get what I want. Are there some better hacks or tools I am not aware of? Does everyone do the xy thing?

What a fun 📊 chart. I was just rewatching the Simpsons episode where Jingle Bells Batman Smells featured, very cool to see these variations organized haha. Nice read here: loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

🎄 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

Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊

Proud of what my team at @restofworld.org shipped this year - less flashy, more foundational. Improved features for our newsroom, cleaner design, more accessible storytelling. Here's our 2025 product recap: restofworld.org/inside/rest-...

Inspired by this www.reuters.com/graphics/TEN... piece by @graphics.reuters.com, I'm trying to figure out a pipeline with ggplot and imagick to create these embroidered 📊 charts for my next blogpost. Some success!

finally published this visual article on dithering (part 1)! I had so much fun and learned a lot while making this. not only about dithering, but also about @threejs.org shaders. as usual, animated with @animejs.com enjoy! 🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

Today is the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year for most of us living between the Equator and the Arctic Circle. The duration varies by latitude. Those living in the Arctic are experiencing Polar Night, which may have begun weeks ago! Blog antonioantoine.com/2025/12/17/t...

> We archived around 86M music files, representing around 99.6% of listens. It’s a little under 300TB. This is the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. Many interesting 📊 charts on this page that can only be made by having this scale of data. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

Never been happier with a MapLibre style.

The archives of the journal Visible Language, which has published interesting articles on #dataviz 📊 in addition to typography, calligraphy, spelling reform, and many other interesting things, are available for free online: journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...

Working on this hand-drawn map style in MapLibre and I like how it's coming along! Lots of scrapbooking assets from older maps to make sprites here. Pictured here, a section of Regent's Park, London. Tree data via OpenStreetMaps.

I have such immense inertia in even wanting to switch from RStudio to Positron or to Quarto from xaringan/rmarkdown. I get that they are better, but the original tools feel so close to my heart it feels wrong doing it. #rstats

First international coverage for diagramchasing.fun in IndieWire. They discuss two charts from our project, which tracks and archives data from India’s film censor board (CBFC). Nice to see the #dataviz work getting some attention alongside the data itself. www.indiewire.com/features/int...

I think it is absolutely incredible that I can import vector labels of place names from the 19th century into QGIS. aman.bh/notes/2025/1...

Long and over-engineered post about mapping a fictional story as if it were real coming soon

my master's project is a winner of @puddingviz.bsky.social's Pudding Cup! thanks so much to one of my favorite sites out there :) check the piece out here: cj-robinson.github.io/trans-model-... and take a look at the other (very cool!) projects that won this year: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

We’re excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Pudding Cup! Our entry pool was the strongest ever with close to 100 submissions. Show our 3 winners some love 🫶 on this thread, and check out the full details and honorable mentions at the link: pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

Very cool #dataviz and exploration.

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

A small reflection that spawned from a talk I gave at IndiaFOSS, where I disparaged dashboards. Why did I do that? Maybe I didn't need to? aman.bh/blog/2025/i-...

I sampled CRT button clicks and degaussing noises to add UI sounds to hypertext.tv. sound ON

I put together a detailed collection of useful patterns I've collected after vibe-coding 150 different single-file HTML tools over the past couple of years simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/...

I did a few dork searches to find instances of AI-generated text in government documents. We have a perverse incentive structure of length equal to rigor right from schools (pad your essays and hit word counts!), which means institutional generation of slop was inevitable. aman.bh/blog/2025/ai...

To my knowledge, cbfc.watch is the first project of its kind to make updates to film censorship in a country available for subscription with an RSS feed :P We're tracking and archiving data on India's film censor board and making it as accessible as possible.

Surprise surprise, @fallofcivilizations.com is my top podcast this year. This says around 6.3k minutes listened to on Spotify, but my guesstimate would be at least 2x that since I switched to AntennaPod halfway through the year. Notes (and a guess on the pod's fav word): aman.bh/photos/2025/...

Obsessed with the height thing here.

Svelte...in Quarto!?! This extension by @jamesgoldie.dev looks wonderful! quarto-svelte.jamesgoldie.dev

I rode Bangalore's city buses for a day all around the periphery for almost 200kms in a single day, for no reason (other than that it is fun to ride buses). Pro-bus propaganda (of which I am a part) should also sell it as a good leisure option. See the city! aman.bh/photos/2025/...

Ha, good to see webmentions working on my website :P @fubits.dev's like showing up, woohoo!!

Can Bangalore's bus service be better? Of course. But as it stands right now, for me, it is the best invitation into the city. A few words of praise. aman.bh/blog/2025/pr...

I jumped from my chair

Could someone help me understand why most of Manhattan has no color in this map by @nytimes.com, showing Mamdani and Cuomo voters by 'commute type'? Is it not either public transit or cars, why is most blank? Can I find this broken down by type of transit (subway, buses) for these areas? #dataviz

"Their timing proved crucial. Had they started even a few months later, years of censorship data would have vanished". A nice profile of our project in The Frontline. This wasn't just #dataviz but also data acquisition, which is a painful process in India. frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-cul...

A thread of some design/code highlights for me from our 'How Bangalore Uses the Metro' 📊 project. 1. The header sign is fully HTML/CSS. 'Go Down Take Up For Toilet' is real signage at one of our biggest stations (pic below) :P

Filed a Right to Information request with Bangalore's metro authority asking how many people traveled on the metro and got a file with 1.2M rows of data! We break our findings down in this story on how Bangalore uses the metro. w/ @vonter.bsky.social #dataviz diagramchasing.fun/2025/how-ban...

A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument. blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Experiments in visualizing crowds in Bangalore's metro station. The floor plans come in SVG formats, so I solved this by managing to constrain rendering clusters within a polygon with a certain color code (platform color is always consistent) :P

Today, @vonter.bsky.social and I launched cbfc.watch, an archive of over 100k censorship records for ~18k movies released in India since 2017. For the first time, you can search for any movie and see how they were modified before release. The site is fun to explore, but here's some #dataviz in it!