Danielle Alberti

this got an lol outta me johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

Since getting laid off from my journalism job, I've been dabbling in the Oxford Comma. Just a little rebellion as a treat.

Fun fact: in 2024 there were more Trump voters in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties than all of Nebraska, Alaska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and most of Montana combined.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

a few weeks of unemployment have given me plenty of time to quilt, look at birds, and contemplate the terrifying expanse of "transferable skills." anyway, if anyone needs someone who's good at data viz, visual storytelling, and leading creative teams, hello! 👋

What do data professionals from the New York Times, Washington Post, Spiegel and Bloomberg have in common? They've taken my course on birding and data visualization!

Last time I was laid off from journalism, I was barraged with "learn to code" trolls (I was literally a Web developer at the time). Oh how times have changed.

@daniellealberti.bsky.social is so talented and so lovely. She and the #DataViz team she’s led for years have produced the most amazing work 💚

So I know I mostly use this space to post about birds and quilting, but I'm also a data viz professional. Well, I was until yesterday. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Some sad news: Axios has eliminated their #dataviz team, which means I have a few former colleagues who are going to be looking for work. @daniellealberti.bsky.social was one of the best managers I’ve ever had and her eye for hiring the right people to round out a team is second to none.

Second place at the Arlington County Fair! So amazing getting to see people stop and gush over my hard work. 🥰

It's hard to pick favorites with my quilts, but I'm afraid this one might take first place. It was very much a skill-building project, from working with the gradient fabric to my first time hand-quilting and hand-binding. And obvi jackalopes are badass. (Original pattern via Amelia at Summer Sleet)

If you exist at the intersection of birding, data viz, and fiber arts, please hit me up. There are dozens of us and i want to follow every one.

I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

New story from @pudding.cool is out, featuring some unique #dataviz forms I immediately added to my inspo bookmarks. The sankey + vocab list combo was especially good

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

SAD STATE OF A FAIR

relatedly, the best editors are the ones who both make your prose better and who challenge your worldview and how you express it

i think one of the biggest flaws a lot of writers have, especially opinion writers, is this innate belief that their experience is *the* universal experience and when it manifests itself in a piece it annoys me to no end

This visual, posted to Reddit by Stephen Nass in 2015 and adapted by @cingraham.bsky.social is forever the gold standard, and i just used it to explain this month's Virginia election to my 8-year-old (est. 2017).

This is a really good Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_fi...

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

Google's constantly giving me pop-ups telling me I've used 89% of my storage space, so I need to buy more immediately. I've had this account for over 20 years and it took me that long to get to 89%, so I just don't feel like I'm going to use that last 11% imminently.

Cuts at the Washington Post: • Shuttering the Sports desk. • Books section ended. • Metro cut from 40 reporters to 12. Bezos bought the Post for $250 million. He paid $500 million for his yacht.

Alyssa is both a serious data journalist with immense technical chops and a super-talented visualization guru, figuring out all sorts of solutions to create the best storytelling approach. Plus she's a great collaborative partner :) Someone needs to hire her ASAP.

Lord help us I love it cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

Google Photos is convinced that Seymour is a red panda.

Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.

Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein...

Can someone out there who's more influential than me come up with a new word for "subtweeting" that happens outside of Twitter? And then make it a thing?

@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you

I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.

Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government

The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours.

Digital collage #dataviz to highlight the rise of forest loss by wildfires 🌳📈📊

The hardest part of data journalism isn't writing code, it's everything else that takes a lot of experience & practice to do right — understanding your data's limitations, knowing what or who it leaves out, figuring out how it relates to other information. A bot will never be good at that.

When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.

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