Neil Richards

Welcome so many new X-odus followers! I'm a #dataviz guy who loves nothing more than creative, rule-breaking dataviz. My tool of choice is Tableau but my book is tool-agnostic. Did someone say book? It's 25% off on a Black Friday deal - free postage worldwide. 📊 routledge.pub/Questions-in...

⭐ EARLY BIRD PRICES EXTENDED ⭐ More about my upcoming Creative Dataviz Workshop with Sophie Sparkes on November 3rd 2006 in London - we'd love to see you there. Happy to answer any questions! sparkescreative.kit.com/from-questio...

Check out a new creative dataviz workshop with me and the super talented Sophie Sparkes! 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🍽️ Lunch included 🎟️ Early bird £295 until 27 September (or until sold out), then £395 sparkescreative.kit.com/from-questio...

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View during the 2 day in person Data Visualisation & Storytelling course I delivered in Mallorca at the weekend. I can deliver the same great course for you/your team, on a sunny island, in the UK rain or online - passion and knowledge for dataviz is the same the world over! neilrichardsdata.com

Starting tomorrow (Wednesday 10th) - our collaboration to help you with all things Tableau and AI, alongside a community of fellow learners on the same journey. Not too late to join for the very first session, at super discount founder member rates 👇 vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

🟡🟠🔴 Just stumbled upon a great gradient/color palette generator by @obumbratta.com: obumbratta.com/colour It's inspired by Gregor Aisch's Color Palette Helper (gka.github.io/palettes/#/9...) and brings it to the next level with a color plot, contrast ratios, and different color spaces. 📊

Announcing my collaboration with @vizdj.bsky.social - The Insights Collective Steve and I are investigating all things Tableau & AI, bringing learnings to our community via years of training experience. Join us as a founder member at heavily discounted rates Much more: vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - you worry you are turning into Victor Meldrew. That's because (like me, a fellow 1972 person) you have passed your Meldrew Point! You are older than Richard Wilson was when he started playing Victor Meldrew. Check this visualisation ...

Announcing my collaboration with @vizdj.bsky.social - The Insights Collective Steve and I are investigating all things Tableau & AI, bringing learnings to our community via years of training experience. Join us as a founder member at heavily discounted rates Much more: vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Hi to all followers and bluesky folks - it's been a long six months since I posted. It's hard to condense into 200ish characters, so I'll just say that redundancy and cancer hit one after the other. But we fight on - slowly venturing into the freelance space while prioritising health and recovery!

And there’s me worried about learning to crochet a granny square for grannylifecrochet.com

Still time to join the Granny Life community math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com ! My job is assembly, so today I am learning about braided fishing wire and how to tie fishing nets. Hoping to incorporate a strong net grid into the project. It's going to weigh about 15-20 pounds!

When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different

A question for my German, Spanish and French friends on here: How to you refer to the term AI? Do people in French and Spanish refer to it as IA? And in German as KI? Or is it a global term known as AI pretty much everywhere? Thanks / Merci / Danke / Gracias!

What were the chances of that? - I met the guy who sold me the @datavandals.bsky.social T-shirt right here in Vienna! Great to catch up with @jasonforrest.bsky.social as part of @csh.ac.at’s Visualising Complexity workshop - so many great people are here collaborating on fun visualisation projects

Brace yourself - here’s dataviz @ryanairofficial.bsky.social style!

Looking forward to a week of fun complex dataviz in Vienna! 🇦🇹

My latest article for @datavizsociety.bsky.social’s Nightingale magazine is out now. Check out my interview with Angelica Lo Duca, author of “Become a Great Data Storyteller” - we discuss heroes, sidekicks, minions and more, along with the inevitable growth of AI …

Thanks to everyone at the Illustrating Mathematics week at ICERM who made Granny Life squares this week! Almost 20 now completed!! Get the free pattern and motif generator at www.grannylifecrochet.com

Any fellow #dataviz folk who are also Fantasy Premier League #fpl players? Challenge yourself against me, @visualisingdata.com, and dozens more Join this mini-league, league code is rcof9h (or use link below) fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto... Totally free .... and starts tomorrow evening!

Any fellow #dataviz folk who are also Fantasy Premier League #fpl players? Challenge yourself against me, @visualisingdata.com, and dozens more Join this mini-league, league code is rcof9h (or use link below) fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto... Totally free .... and starts tomorrow evening!

Granny Life Progress Report! Out of 100 squares needed, 6 are completed and 54 more are claimed and in progress! Still 40 squares left to claim if you would like to join the cellular automata community crochet math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com #geek #mathart #grannylife #crochet 🧶

If you're going to download my mappy tribute to #OzzyOsbourne that plots his touring history with both #BlackSabbath and as a solo artist be sure to look out for a couple of easter eggs. Free download: carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...

This looks so good … Sadly I can’t make it this year but a great deal just got better!

Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com. Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :) #mathsky #crochet 🧶

I've signed up for @mathgrrl.com 's amazing #grannylifecrochet project at www.grannylifecrochet.com. I'm not a granny and I've never crocheted but this looks like a great opportunity to take part in mass participation maths algorithm based art. What's not to like? Squares still available!🇫🇷🧶

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Looking forward to discussing CHART in the upcoming DataVis Book Club on August 18th! ^_^

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: What is a Hitomezashi Snowflake? questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/25/w... Inspired by @mathskath.bsky.social - looking at encoding data as hitomezashi stitching (steganocoding) and creating digital equivalents, before diving into the mathematics of snowflakes.

My latest visualisation - Hitomezashi Snowflakes. Inspired by @mathskath.bsky.social and her book A Stitch in Line, here's my digital recreation of an order five Fibonacci snowflake (highlighted in white, with smaller order snowflakes in different colours). Blog post and explanation to follow! 📊

Morning all! If anyone wants a discount code for a further 15% off Questions in Dataviz (currently already 20% off), please DM me or let me know. Takes the price from £35.99 to £24.47 (with free worldwide shipping) routledge.pub/Questions-in... Code is valid until Thursday (21st July)

#dataviz 📊 Connecting the dots: From data to knowledge to wisdom to ... ???

Updated my Emily Vanderpoel inspired Wimbledon viz with yesterday's Singles Finals games.. Even an unorthodox design-inspired viz can show how cruel tennis scoring can be. Anisimova may not have registered a single game but did win just over 30% of the total points in Swiatek's 6-0 6-0 win. 📊

Love these from @mathgrrl.com - definitely not just for grannies!

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers

NEW: How do we take inspiration from colour palettes? questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/08/h... My latest blog post features my newest visualisation, looking at two Wimbledon matches in the style of 1901 artist, author and colour theory expert Emily Noyes Vanderpoel.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

NEW: How do we take inspiration from colour palettes? questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/08/h... My latest blog post features my newest visualisation, looking at two Wimbledon matches in the style of 1901 artist, author and colour theory expert Emily Noyes Vanderpoel.

🚨 BIG NEWS: @datavandals.bsky.social are headed to London this week for an EPIC project. Read all about it below! Thanks to all our friends Flourish!! Maybe of interest: @londondatavis.bsky.social, @data.ft.com, @datavizsociety.bsky.social, @womenindataviz.bsky.social, @dataviz.bsky.social

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: When does a Chart become Art? @nadiehbremer.com's book is a beautifully documented invitation to data visualisers new and experienced alike to follow her into creative areas where she has been the first to tread. questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/03/w...

Oh my word - Sesame Street meets MC Escher, two of my long term obsessions!

Ok, BBC Sport, a full filled in bar represents 57%? Got it - that’s nice and clear 🤯