Aman Bhargava

Aman Bhargava

@aman.bh

code, data and design person. Bangalore, India #dataviz #rstats #svelte #maps

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Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

The monsoon is over, and almost 40% of the 74 major Indian dams are at their lowest late-October level in eight years. The typical dam is usually 0.4 m below full at this time of year, but this year it's 3.5 m. @diagramchasing #dataviz

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

This made me follow Firefox on Instagram. I would never have imagined following a browser's Instagram page.

Firefox@firefox.com

Since 2004, this community has helped make Firefox and the open internet possible. Our “Come Back to Firefox” campaign reunites a few early internet icons to remind people what made the internet special, and why it’s worth protecting.

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Jim Waterson
@jim.londoncentric.media

Written journalism is not looking healthy. Just can’t reach an audience, unless it’s funded by readers and has its own distribution channels. (Case in point: me, I used to read Rest of World stuff when I saw it on feeds and it was quality but if I don’t see it…) www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

semafor.comRest of World faces prospect of shutting downThe six-year-old digital publication has seen the social and web search traffic on which it depends evaporate.
Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

This is a huge blow. I love @restofworld.org because it is one of the few places that covers human-centered stories about subjects besides pure technology like labor, society, and local economies outside the Western bubble. It's important for countries like India. Their design team are also stars.

Talking Biz News@talkingbiznews.bsky.social

@restofworld.org to cease publication as standalone in 2027: talkingbiznews.com/highlighted-...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
@iwriteok.bsky.social

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

Extremely puzzling replies here. If the Internet Archive is at stake, use Claude, use black magic. IDC.

Internet Archive@archive.org

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

> Back then, making bivariate maps meant blending color schemes in graphics programs, hand-tuning where both variables run high, stitching two classifications together into a single attribute your software could understand. A lot has changed since then. Bivariate maps, 11 years on! #dataviz

joshuastevens.netStill Bivariate, Still Curious — Joshua StevensBivariate choropleth maps, eleven years later: what's changed in software and color science, and how to make one today.

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Pooja Saxena
@matratype.bsky.social

Made a thing I’m pretty proud of!

TypeTogether@typetogether.bsky.social

Futura®100 Devanagari /// A reinterpretation of Paul Renner’s geometric sans serif for the 600 million users of the Devanagari script in languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. www.typetogether.com/fonts/futura... Futura® is a registered trademark of Bauer Types. Used under license. #fontsky

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Karthik
@beastoftraal.bsky.social

"They redrew the limits of democracy, redrew the limits of accountability, redrew the limit of dissent. Because they were changing definitions, it was taking us time to understand what was exactly happening — what exactly is the playbook that they are setting up for us."

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

The next @diagramchasing.fun story will be fun, I'm very excited about it. I step out of my usual comfort zone of finding obscure data with code/scraping to radio receivers, interviews, primary data collection, and even a research visit to my local meteorological observatory. Out in a few weeks!

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

DYK that India, which prides itself on being the world's largest democracy, has the concept of "designated protest sites?" If you've not sought permission to protest in them, you can be detained. It used to happen right outside parliament, and now they've shifted it 10 km out. A map #dataviz

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

Spotless capture today. I believe there's a sliver of Oman visible across the Arabian Sea in the top left corner. #amateurradio #satellite

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I finally got myself an RTL-SDR receiver and today afternoon tracked the Meteor M2 satellite. With an antenna strapped to the end of a mop, I dangled off the edge of my balcony and got this beautiful reading of almost the entire Indian peninsula. #maps My mind is blown!

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Prem Thakker ツ
@premthakker.bsky.social

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

My quarterly attempt at making videos to promote our #dataviz projects @diagramchasing.fun 🫠 I cirrusly dew not want to do this.

Diagram Chasing@diagramchasing.fun

India's Met Department draws a daily cloud-cover chart for 1,243 weather stations and they are made to look like a real sky with chunky white pixels. We've been saving them since February and turning those pixels back into numbers. Saying hello to bsky with a video of how it works. #dataviz #maps

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

I finally got myself an RTL-SDR receiver and today afternoon tracked the Meteor M2 satellite. With an antenna strapped to the end of a mop, I dangled off the edge of my balcony and got this beautiful reading of almost the entire Indian peninsula. #maps My mind is blown!

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

I want to do more! Amateur radio folks, what should the next investment be? I am using a stock V dipole antenna and the RTL-SDR V4.

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

I finally got myself an RTL-SDR receiver and today afternoon tracked the Meteor M2 satellite. With an antenna strapped to the end of a mop, I dangled off the edge of my balcony and got this beautiful reading of almost the entire Indian peninsula. #maps My mind is blown!

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

The ol' word game tracking dashboard got a facelift after 2.5 years (picture below of the Before). Shifted from an R Shiny dashboard to a Sveltekit PWA (which can be installed on our phones!). #dataviz

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Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

The ol' word game tracking dashboard got a facelift after 2.5 years (picture below of the Before). Shifted from an R Shiny dashboard to a Sveltekit PWA (which can be installed on our phones!). #dataviz

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

This is the before! We've been logging our word game results into this every day for the last 2.5 years. It has a startup time of around 30 seconds and is very prone to error 🫠 Made no sense to keep it any longer since the backend is anyway just a Google Sheet.

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Michael Friendly
@datavisfriendly.bsky.social

Totally agree. Attila's posts are always a delight. I find myself thinking: where did he find these things??

Aman Bhargava@aman.bh

We're all lucky to have The Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities and all the work @attilabatorfy.bsky.social has been putting in! Let’s help it reach a wider audience this year. If you're into #dataviz, help spread the love of these beautiful finds to those who haven't found this great resource yet.

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

We're all lucky to have The Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities and all the work @attilabatorfy.bsky.social has been putting in! Let’s help it reach a wider audience this year. If you're into #dataviz, help spread the love of these beautiful finds to those who haven't found this great resource yet.

Attila Bátorfy@attilabatorfy.bsky.social

Thoughts on “no graphics” archiving policies, lack of standards, large inequalities in the preservation of dataviz and infographic heritage

attilabatorfy.substack.comA year of digging into our dataviz heritageLessons learnt, reflections and results.
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Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

We're all lucky to have The Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities and all the work @attilabatorfy.bsky.social has been putting in! Let’s help it reach a wider audience this year. If you're into #dataviz, help spread the love of these beautiful finds to those who haven't found this great resource yet.

Attila Bátorfy@attilabatorfy.bsky.social

Thoughts on “no graphics” archiving policies, lack of standards, large inequalities in the preservation of dataviz and infographic heritage

attilabatorfy.substack.comA year of digging into our dataviz heritageLessons learnt, reflections and results.
Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

It's extremely amusing that seismo.gov.in clips the earthquake impact data to our boundaries because an earthquake that happens in India stays in India, as everyone knows. #dataviz We will not part with one pixel of extra information *waves fist patriotically*

Aman Bhargava
@aman.bh

Clouds made it to the Dispatch!

Datawrapper@datawrapper.de

📊🤖⚽️ Our latest Dispatch just dropped, with the best of #dataviz of the last seven days! This time with charts and maps on the AI race, the Premier League, electric cars, cloudberries, clouds, and data art. Find it all here: www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...