📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116000811728539952 Week 3's class, an introduction Svelte and component-based design, is live and free to anyone interested in taking it. https://palewi.re/docs/coding-the-news/scripts/week-3/

Looks like my full series on using color in #dataviz finally made the migration to the new NASA science website: science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-... If you’re new to visualization, or just want a refresher, it covers the basics of color theory, how to build a palette, plus some tips & tricks.

Get your submissions in!! @vizchitra.bsky.social #dataviz

🗞️ Nieman Lab republished the piece Scott Klein and I put together analyzing the decline of open-source news. If you haven't checked it out yet, here's another chance. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharing-heres-how-we-rebuild-it/

The Indian government released an MCP server that lets you query their survey data using plain English and get back aggregate statistics from national surveys. I explore some of its possibilities and limitations. #data #stats aman.bh/blog/2026/qu...

Started to feel like I'm gatekeeping it so I'll rather just share the draft: Last fall I started a opinionated Svelte 5 onboarding flow / roadmap. Plan was to translate it into an interactive (with links and more details) over Xmas but I had to take a hard break. I'll probably go for it in February

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

I can't believe I get to see this be used in context lmao

A new AI-generated writing giveaway I've begun to spot is the overuse of quiet/quietly as an adjective. "Quiet intentionality", "quiet strength", "quiet revolution", quiet this quiet that; everything is quiet. Vague enough to fit anywhere and give a sense of understatedness.

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

okay this is epic aman.bh/blog/2025/cr...

#tidytuesday Week 5, I wanted to try visualizing the sun and water requirements of the various edible plants in this dataset. Maybe not the best idea, as I'm assigning jittered values to categories. coord_polar is always fun to use, serrated edges for a leafier look #rstats #dataviz Code & GIF ⬇️

What an interesting chart!

I'm excited to inform you: @hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀 I regret to inform you: I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻 #rstats #databs

Pleasantly surprised to find my reflection find a mention in Andy's newsletter! aman.bh/blog/2025/i-...

After 20 years of NYT graphics, I’ve switched back to freelance and personal projects. My farewell talk is here: style.org/talk/

I've been waiting for this to launch ever since I first heard of it. What an incredible contribution to the #dataviz community. So grateful and hyped to share this everywhere!!

🗞️ My database of news homepage is featured in today's NiemanLab investigation into publishers opting out of the archive.org library. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

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

Important thread and research!

For #tidytuesday week 4, I visualized the distribution of Brazilian companies by their legal nature and company size. Made with {ggmosaic}. #rstats #dataviz Code: github.com/thedivtagguy...

Newly added censorship certificates on #CBFCWatch: Marty Supreme, Newton's 3rd Law, Weapons, and Kallu Fail. cbfc.watch (also available via RSS) #CBFC #censorship

Great slides by Arjun on the importance of writing as a student of design (and tech!). arjunmakesthings.github.io/presentation... I've been following his blog on his time at the interactive-telecommunications-programme at NYU: arjunmakesthings.github.io/itp-blog/ #indieweb #blogging

the 2nd part of my dithering visual article is finally out! 🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa... this one mainly explores the threshold map and how it generates those unique visual patterns hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it! made with #threejs & #animejs

I love weather and I love maps. So when there is an incoming snow storm it is interesting for me to see how different news agencies are mapping the event. Here are examples from @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com. Any others you've seen that work well (or don't)? Links threaded below:

Very late to this but here we go! A collection of our visual and graphics storytelling from 2025. Enjoy 💞

New favorite alias. #svelte svelte-setup creates a minimal SvelteKit site and installs the shadcn-svelte components I keep using in 90% of projects. gist.github.com/thedivtagguy...

I just came across SystemViz for the first time and I'm overwhelmed. 😳 "SystemViz is a research project by Peter Stoyko exploring how visuals can enhance systems thinking, especially as it relates to inter-disciplinary, collaborative design." systemviz.com

aaaand it's live eva.town

By far the most interesting #ggplot chart I've made so far. Short thread on how this was made #dataviz

For #tidytuesday week 3, I tried mapping the most commonly photographed astronomical objects in NASA's APOD! I extracted the entities and then used Wikidata's SPARQL to fetch coordinates, which were mapped onto a nice basemap by NASA. Static image & more in 🧵 #rstats Code: aman.bh/to/tt-apod

I’ve long marveled at this graphic, without really understanding how it works or why it came to be. Aesthetic appeal held my admiration—it’s like something from a steampunk future that never was. www.chartography.net/p/bellissimi...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

For the first time, #Copernicus Sentinel-2A has captured night‑time images of Earth, spotting gas flares in the Middle East, wildfires in India and even fishing boats in South Korea. The results from these tests are being used to prepare for Sentinel‑2 Next Generation.

Wow this is a great read. As someone who does both, every point here rings true. I wish we didn't create this dichotomy of design vs. developer when the medium is finally a mix of both.

Visualising ski run elevation profiles of Hunter Mountain. Thoughts? I tried facetting them by difficulty but they'd look either too wide or tall. Is it useful, interesting? Might be worth combining with an isometric view (in rayshader). #ggplot2 adventures, an #rstats tale

This week's #tidytuesday is on languages in Africa. I decided to visualize it using {ggbeeswarm}. I had no idea there were so many languages, ranging from a dozen speakers to more than 100 million each. #rstats Code: github.com/thedivtagguy...

brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

👀 New blog post! 👀 Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? 📈 Read this blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessi... #DataViz #RStats

Cheeseburgers are not natural. My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

#rstats #dataviz #psy6136 Gave the first lecture for my course in Categorical Data Analysis Slides: friendly.github.io/psy6136/lect...

#dataviz educators, what are some things you could use from the R/Python ecosystem of packages but in the browser for no-code teaching? Last year I made Pivotteer to provide a GUI for dplyr's pivot functions (unparalleled API), what else would be nice to have? pivotteer.netlify.app

Well this is fun, someone wrote a Python implementation for this effect! github.com/lucasmelin/e... Blog post: lucasmelin.com/blog/26/1/10... #dataviz

Labeling maps is a peaceful practice, and often is half the job of a cartographer. I'm sure seas will be drained and skies will be blackened so that AI can do it in our stead in a year or two, but for now, I always enjoy looking at a "map minus map" version of completed work.

After weeks of staring at 1890s Survey maps and Victorian railway timetables, I think I've finally mapped how each set of characters moves in the Sherlock Holmes adventure 'The Red-Headed League'. 📊 #maps #booksky Fancy new blogpost: aman.bh/blog/2026/ma... Just the map: aman.bh/projects/red...

one thing bluesky does better than any other app i’ve ever used is drive conversation. why? because it _incentivizes_ conversation. not through algorithms or through some technological trick. but because the community itself thrives off of that conversation.