We did a massive data-collection-and-joining effort combined with statistical modeling to estimate that about 200 to 400 pedestrians are dying each year who otherwise would have survived if vehicles were about the same size as they were around 20 years ago. Cumulatively, that's thousands of deaths.

Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Indian censor board cuts to any film used to be published in government gazettes by law. I collected 8,000 movies from the 1960s-90s and dug through them in this new post. Bond, Lawrence of Arabia, a lot of nervousness about communists and "suggestions of kissing". #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2026/hi...

C'est moi!

And with such a nice organic pie chart! (Enjoyed your article)

Absolutely honored to have been asked to write for Attila. His work has been such an inspiration and the Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities is one of my favorite #dataviz blogs! A look at some of my favorite picks from the 1971 and 1981 Indian censuses.

This Monday, a fantastic guest post is coming to Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities by the great Aman Bhargava @aman.bh

AI hype is weird. I use Claude too, but I'm not a "fan". It's a tool. Does it not matter what it is being used to make? You can make good things or you can make mediocre things. If you make good things that others value too, then it is by "you". Why purely evangelize a tool and diminish yourself.

It's been a pleasure (and privilege) to see LayerChart grow and grow, getting better with each release. The new docs are wonderful. Indispensable chart tooling for Svelte!

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

I've been truly inspired by the archival work and writings on historical dataviz by @infowetrust.com, @attilabatorfy.bsky.social and @datavisfriendly.bsky.social. My main motivation here was to see if I can find #dataviz for the Indian context. This is a small start and part of the learning process!

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊

I always think I should make a thread of it, but I can't find the time, so here it is, one of the projects I'm most proud of: we developed the dataviz standards for the Quebec government's website. 📊

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Really written with a lot of heart, full of interactive #dataviz AND if that wasn't enough, music by Shri himself (what a flex)!! Stunning piece of work.

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.

How I figure out how far to dive into the topic ... well that's a bit of an instinct I've developed from doing this for years. But basically I try to keep the idea to a single take-away (ie: wealthy live in the shade!), and I try to keep it under about 1000 words.

Another NICAR, another year of FOMO. One day.

I gave a guest talk at Purdue on intro to data storytelling in 'lowercase'. Writing it reminded me of when I was a student and thought only one kind of story, the Big Story, could exist. Some of this feels obvious to us in the #dataviz space, but maybe it isn't. Slides: aman.bh/blog/2026/da...

📣 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 💞