Allison McCartney

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/...

🚨DATA ALERT🚨 I started a 🤓 newsletter w/ @caitlingilbert.bsky.social & @jdharden.bsky.social, check it out if you wanna go down some fun data rabbit holes unrelated to our day jobs 🧵 wrongnumber.beehiiv.com

I went to see I Love Boosters yesterday and while there are so many fun Bay Area details, the Millennium Tower being home to the villain’s lair tickled me so right

An excellent plaque

I have reached the age of dubious distinction where people are just wishing me happy Mother’s Day with no child in sight

Great visual explainer by Agnes Chang and @pablorobles.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#blessed to have experienced both the Hot Duck era in NYC and now the Chonkers era in SF

Atomic Redsters seem to be the true Olympic champions so far

It’s fun to see the whole city decked out in 49ers gear

it's true-

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

In retrospect, le poisson steve was probably the best thing to happen in 2025

The scream I scrumpt seeing Hunter/x show up as a Snoop guest on the Lions/Vikings halftime show!!!

“INSIDE THE DEPORTATION MACHINE: How ICE has moved thousands of people through detention and out of the country.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made. SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Don’t make me choose ! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/b...

Waymos are bad for human jobs, but good, generally, for traffic safety. Blackouts are (for the time being, anyway) an edge case, but the public needs to know how/if this can be addressed, bc that makes the impacts of quakes or cyberterror more fraught. sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/w...

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My Bay Area struggle is thinking to myself, "Wow it's absolutely freezing," then opening my weather app and seeing it's 56 degrees 😐

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lol this rocks taking my children to see the nativity mural painted on the olde drugstore facade downtown and accidentally giving them PTSD from a hieronymous bosch version of rudolph getting eaten by elves

Fran Sans — a typeface inspired by San Francisco light rail displays — is gorgeous and this excellent article really shows you how deep a typography designer will go 👏👏👏 emilysneddon.com/fran-sans… #typography #design

Myusy, a festive sea slug, is a mascot for the coastal town of Hayama, in Kanagawa Prefecture. Myusy supports beach cleanups and activities to protect the marine environment.

When I move away from a place, it often feels like a dream that I ever lived there at all.

Power outage street party in the Mission

I can report a pretty substantial power outage in the Mission

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

My Instagram ads are out of control

The best part of the TS album release is that Brat is back on my TL

It's pretty amazing that I've played more than 200 hours of Civilization VI (say nothing of previous versions) and am still incredibly shit at it

I can’t tell if I’m in a Bay Area bubble or if hyphy is really coming back in 2025

Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Took long enough but glad it's here!

NEWS: Meta will announce an AI reorganization today, dividing the Superintelligence division into four units weighing some cuts or employees moved from AI division considering licensing closed source models to build new AI products w/ @elitan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...

“An analysis of real-time train data shows that it is less reliable than its New York and Connecticut counterparts — Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) — and riders face significant service disruptions at six times the rate of other commuters.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Hard to describe how San Francisco felt kind of empty six months ago, and feels full to bursting now

“It is WARM 🥵 out today,” is a thing I have said multiple times today. I grew up playing soccer in the Texas summer - how far I have fallen.

An incredible public resource!