He was also one of those who ushered in the modern era of statistical graphics, the language (S / trellis graphics -> {lattice) pkg) of expressing those in code, and a keen observer of/contributor to work done in graphic perception.
RIP, Bill. I enjoyed all our interactions.
Joy and wonder straight to the veins.
Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions!
www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...
Just needs music and you have the opening to a space documentary
How long Americans work the same job flowingdata.com/2026/03/26/j...
Excellent use of Sankey
Scammers must be having a great time these days with all their new generative and automated toys to trick people into alternate realities.
Why Moody
homepage of information aesthetics, with the most recent post from 2014
For the old heads, it looks like information aesthetics is partially back up circa 2014 infosthetics.com
Smith College is hiring for a 3-year lecturer position in data journalism. apply.interfolio.com/182785 I can attest to Smith being a great place to work. Folks at #NICAR26 should check out the posting.
Why Americans are unemployed, by age an education flowingdata.com/2026/03/05/u...
It seems there will need to be a +1 for the laid off category as of a few minutes ago.
NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.
🏮Happy Lantern Festival!🏮
This year we made a sky lantern (天燈) interactive to bring the experience at your fingertips!
Customize a lantern with your own wishes and learn fun Taiwanese “ Horse Year” sayings. May all your digital wishes come true!
taiwandatastories.com/lantern-fest...
These visual breakdowns of everyday objects by Bryan Macomber are super satisfying mechanical-pencil.com
"An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"
A frame using satellite imagery showing a geographic region: Is it a map or a photo?
Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats.
US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley
More info:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
#DDJ #JournalismJobs
Meaning behind the food by Taiwan Data Stories circa 2023 taiwandatastories.com/lunar-new-ye...
Happy new year 🧧🐎🍚
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
Snatch up the WaPo folks. A lot of talent entered free agency today.
Bar chart with exaggerated change between two years by incorrectly starting y-axis at 80.2.
From the White House, a bar chart that starts at 80.2 to exaggerate change incorrectly.
Beware of Base Stealer flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses
The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org
Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Out of New York and California and into Florida and Texas. Population drops and gains in every state flowingdata.com/2026/01/29/p...
Dumb times, dumb charts. Timelines for the people references in We Didn't Start the Fire flowingdata.com/2026/01/20/t...
Latest on the federal forces in Minnesota from me and my colleague Jeff Hargarten:
There are now more federal immigration agents in MN than the 10 largest Twin Cities police departments combined.
9% of ICE is in MN right now, even though MN has less than 1% of the nation's undocumented immigrants.
New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer
obumbratta.com/colour
I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why
New Year's resolutions for men and women that we will definitely follow through with this year flowingdata.com/2026/01/05/n...
Happy new year everyone
