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Some good #dataviz discussion on the pros/cons on the usage of choropleth maps in this thread, and who has responsibility for clarity and understanding.

If you’ve ever played The Kevin Bacon game, this new data story by @pudding.cool is for you 📊

Wool socks for every day of the week, baby!

We love accessible #dataviz! Kudos to the DW team for putting in the work to make this possible.

It took me less than 15 minutes to vote on Friday, even with a short line. I highly recommend it to every Virginia voter!

Can confirm that Dani is wonderful at all of these things. Any #dataviz team would be lucky to have her!

Lovely and deep visual op-ed by Giorgia Lupi: "A.I. is a different kind of technology, because it can deliver an end result before creative thinking has happened at all" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm glad I'm not the only Taylor fan who didn't know what this phrase meant 😂 I do love that you can see stuff like this in Google Trends data. It's fun to learn together

Love to see a novelty map go viral. 📊

The FAA should not use my constituents as guinea pigs for an unproven AI air traffic control system that has Americans’ lives in its hands. I’m calling on the FAA to immediately suspend use of this AI system at Washington area airports until its safety has been established. My full statement:

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

Beyond the #dataviz feed, are there people you follow on Bluesky who are posting about the field regularly? Let Francis know by replying to his thread.

Some @layercake.graphics news: with @openclimatedata.net's help and @techniq.dev's insights, v11 of the library is out and has fully converted into runes instead of the @svelte.dev Store API. tldr; many fewer dollar-signs!

⚡ 68 lightning flashes PER MINUTE. That’s what we measured at the peak of Thursday night’s DC storm — more than 1 per second. Add 60-70 mph winds and blinding rain. We explain why it got so intense — and whether it was a derecho: www.capitalweather.com/how-thursday...

Freelance #dataviz opportunity

On LinkedIn, @daniellealberti.bsky.social just announced that Axios disbanded its data visualization team yesterday. @visuals.axios.com 📊 She is now looking for a new job. A leader in our field.

@sarawise.bsky.social, the long-time deputy editor of the #dataviz team, was also impacted. Sara became a mentor to many of us who joined from non-traditional journalism bgs. She's got a sharp eye for editing & always made sure we kept our reader in mind when we were making more experimental charts.

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.

Professor Tangrowth would be absolutely stoked. So long as anyone besides Mewtwo finds me first, I’ll be in great shape.

A large number of my colleagues in Netflix games were layed off yesterday. If you know of open roles please let me know, I’d love to connect some great people.

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

Announcing that I am officially on board of the organisation team of the Information Design Conference (Oct 30th Hilversum, NL) 🥳🙌 I have been involved for a bit already, arranging speakers plus other stuff and I will be there behind the curtains, #dataviz #conference #IDC26 1/4

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The South Carolina senator “passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” his office said in a statement. https://www.notus.org/senate/lindsey-graham-died

We’ve revamped our pitch guidelines to help us surface the best ideas faster! 📢 Have a data story you're obsessed with telling? We want to hear it. pudding.cool/pitch/

25 years of NBA champions. Only 5 “ethical” rings. We crunched the playoff injury data to see which titles actually hold up without an asterisk. Let us know how mad you are in the comments. Remember, we don’t make the rules, the data does. #nba #dataviz pudding.cool/2026/06/ethi...

🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

This is really promising. If you've ever looked for a map online that you could tweak, @willchase.bsky.social is building the vector map creator of your dreams (beta mode). 📊 🗺️ For me at least (a non-expert at GIS who needs quick maps), this fills an important gap. graticule.org

I’m just afraid that now I won’t get to hear what religion everyone’s mayor and bagels are anymore.

Happily ever afters often get thrown in our face, but rarely do we talk honestly about the hard work it takes to sustain a relationship. We tracked 1,000+ people over the course of 5 years + a pandemic. #lovestory #dataviz #thepudding pudding.cool/2026/06/love...

@erindataviz.bsky.social is back on her #dataviz names streak 👀 TIL I'm ~30 years younger than the average Jacqueline.

We accidentally Pavlov’d our dog to alerting us to when the Mister Softee truck comes through our neighborhood. She got a pup cup one time and it changed her brain chemistry forever. It’s incredible to watch in real time.

This is one of the cooler uses of a pie chart I've seen in the wild. It's like that sky/pyramid illusion, but with real data! S/O to Ceren Dolma @datawrapper.de for this clever #dataviz! www.datawrapper.de/blog/twiligh...

Very cool #dataviz! Kudos to the developers too - the UX is incredibly smooth.

If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Your reminder to stop and smell the flowers on this beautiful sunny day!☀️🐺 #HappySunday

Wonderful, enraging post by Ana about experiences many of us have had. The only “woman in tech” talk I want to attend at this point is one where a man tells his fellow men to do the bare minimum & be a decent human being. And then follows up by actively calling out the shitty behavior as it happens

Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school this visual essay is for you: pudding.cool/2026/05/simi...

Florence and the Machine are truly one of the greats 💚

BIG OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY UPDATE: 10+ more instructors and 10+ more courses to be released on a monthly basis #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization @alyssafowers.bsky.social @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social @petrinkae.bsky.social @rsimmon.bsky.social and many others