Alyson Hurt
@alykat.bsky.social
Graphics, design, editing and whatnot at @npr.org
@npr.org has live results from key elections: VA gov, NJ gov, NYC mayor, CA redistricting prop, and 2 CO ballot props: apps.npr.org/2025-electio...
2025 Election Results: Live
View interactive maps and live results for key U.S. elections in New Jersey, Virginia, California, New York City and Colorado.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
@npr.org has live results from key elections: VA gov, NJ gov, NYC mayor, CA redistricting prop, and 2 CO ballot props: apps.npr.org/2025-electio...
📊🔊 Data sonification: New Orleans' rising temperatures, conveyed via the tempo of a brass band's music www.npr.org/transcripts/...
Hear New Orleans' rising temperatures in music
Average temperatures have been going up in many cities, including New Orleans. Here's what those higher temperatures sound like.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
📊🔊 Data sonification: New Orleans' rising temperatures, conveyed via the tempo of a brass band's music www.npr.org/transcripts/...
I just realized that Illustrator and Photoshop's versions of the "Save for Web" panel have the Save/Cancel/Done buttons in the same place but in different order. Maybe that's why I always accidentally cancel out of them so often — I mean to click "Save" but click "Done" by mistake.
August 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I just realized that Illustrator and Photoshop's versions of the "Save for Web" panel have the Save/Cancel/Done buttons in the same place but in different order. Maybe that's why I always accidentally cancel out of them so often — I mean to click "Save" but click "Done" by mistake.
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Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
August 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Got to nerd out a little about world maps. www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...
African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.
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August 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Got to nerd out a little about world maps. www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...
College students and recent grads: Come intern at NPR this fall/winter! Apply by June 30.
➡️ Graphics + Web Archivist internship (with my team + our Research, Archives & Data Strategy team): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ All internships: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ Graphics + Web Archivist internship (with my team + our Research, Archives & Data Strategy team): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ All internships: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
Coming soon: Fall/Winter 2025 internships at @npr.org. Watch this space: www.npr.org/about-npr/18...
Want To Be An NPR Intern?
A learning experience like no other. Find out how you can contribute your diverse talents to gain invaluable experience at the heart of a thriving multimedia organization.
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June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
College students and recent grads: Come intern at NPR this fall/winter! Apply by June 30.
➡️ Graphics + Web Archivist internship (with my team + our Research, Archives & Data Strategy team): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ All internships: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ Graphics + Web Archivist internship (with my team + our Research, Archives & Data Strategy team): job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
➡️ All internships: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...
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Today marks 9 years since NPR colleagues David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on assignment in Afghanistan. The memorial display at NPR honors their memory. The camera David was carrying when he died is on the left.
We remember them on this day and always.
We remember them on this day and always.
June 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today marks 9 years since NPR colleagues David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on assignment in Afghanistan. The memorial display at NPR honors their memory. The camera David was carrying when he died is on the left.
We remember them on this day and always.
We remember them on this day and always.
Coming soon: Fall/Winter 2025 internships at @npr.org. Watch this space: www.npr.org/about-npr/18...
Want To Be An NPR Intern?
A learning experience like no other. Find out how you can contribute your diverse talents to gain invaluable experience at the heart of a thriving multimedia organization.
www.npr.org
June 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Coming soon: Fall/Winter 2025 internships at @npr.org. Watch this space: www.npr.org/about-npr/18...
Join my team at NPR! We're hiring for a senior graphics reporter. Remote-friendly (in the US). grnh.se/f78153425us
Senior Graphics Reporter
Remote
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May 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Join my team at NPR! We're hiring for a senior graphics reporter. Remote-friendly (in the US). grnh.se/f78153425us
TIMELINES: 100 days of major Trump admin actions re: DOGE, immigration, tariffs, foreign policy, retribution, civil rights and Signalgate, compiled by Domenico Montanaro @npr.org @heidiglenn.bsky.social. SO MUCH has happened in the past 3 months; it's really something to see it listed out.
In first 100 days, Trump tests limits, creates chaos and turns from allies
From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.
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April 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
TIMELINES: 100 days of major Trump admin actions re: DOGE, immigration, tariffs, foreign policy, retribution, civil rights and Signalgate, compiled by Domenico Montanaro @npr.org @heidiglenn.bsky.social. SO MUCH has happened in the past 3 months; it's really something to see it listed out.
🌸 Update to this project, just in time for spring: @danielpwwood.bsky.social added support for zip code search and made transition animations sensitive to whether `prefers-reduced-motion` is set.
My team, working with the Climate Desk, made something that's weird and joyful and useful.
Repo link and blog post(s) to come. In the meantime, enjoy:
Repo link and blog post(s) to come. In the meantime, enjoy:
The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
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April 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🌸 Update to this project, just in time for spring: @danielpwwood.bsky.social added support for zip code search and made transition animations sensitive to whether `prefers-reduced-motion` is set.
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Fascinating deep-dive on an 1855 railroad company org chart, unearthed in the Library of Congress archives:
www.c82.net/blog/?id=98
www.c82.net/blog/?id=98
Making of the New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram
Org charts tend to be a rather boring affair—with their lists of names and who reports to whom—but they didn’t start out that way. One of the first in American business, is a stunning portrait of a cl...
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April 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Fascinating deep-dive on an 1855 railroad company org chart, unearthed in the Library of Congress archives:
www.c82.net/blog/?id=98
www.c82.net/blog/?id=98
@ximenabustillo.bsky.social did extensive reporting and research for this, and we worked together to boil this complex process down into a series of flowcharts. Thanks as well to to editor Anna Yukhananov, art director @emilybogle.bsky.social, illustrator Ana Galvañ and copy editor Pam Webster.
NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps and associated costs of the U.S. deportation process.
By @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and @alykat.bsky.social
By @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and @alykat.bsky.social
How does deportation work, and how much does it cost? We break it down
NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps and associated costs of the U.S. deportation process.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@ximenabustillo.bsky.social did extensive reporting and research for this, and we worked together to boil this complex process down into a series of flowcharts. Thanks as well to to editor Anna Yukhananov, art director @emilybogle.bsky.social, illustrator Ana Galvañ and copy editor Pam Webster.
The back-and-forth volley of tariff threats so far this year:
It's been a wild rollout of Trump's tariffs. Here's how we got here
President Trump's tariff talk has been big — and also unpredictable. He's frequently made threats only to back off or shift deadlines. Here, a look at how the tariff agenda has rolled out.
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April 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The back-and-forth volley of tariff threats so far this year:
New project: An Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Israel-Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead via handwritten lists, which they shared with NPR. apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...
One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war with Hamas, Gaza health officials say. We reconstructed what happened in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the war.
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March 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
New project: An Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Israel-Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead via handwritten lists, which they shared with NPR. apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...
This illustrated/animated NYT essay about agoraphobia and the grocery store is so beautifully done. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Agoraphobe Goes to the Grocery Store
It had been more than 365 days since I went to the supermarket. So I steeled myself and ventured out.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This illustrated/animated NYT essay about agoraphobia and the grocery store is so beautifully done. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact-check and offer context as the speech unfolds.
Follow NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress
As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact-check and offer context as the speech unfolds.
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Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at 74
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
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March 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.
A look at the relative contagiousness of measles and other viruses, the role vaccination plays, and vaccination rates in TX counties.
As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really?
Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A look at the relative contagiousness of measles and other viruses, the role vaccination plays, and vaccination rates in TX counties.
I enjoy the use of sliders / interactivity here to demonstrate data viz literacy concepts.
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I enjoy the use of sliders / interactivity here to demonstrate data viz literacy concepts.
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More than a third of the contracts DOGE posted online would not actually save any money if canceled, according to DOGE themselves.
In all, estimated savings from the initial DOGE list of just over 500 contracts that @npr.org found to be cancelled runs closer to $2 billion.
In all, estimated savings from the initial DOGE list of just over 500 contracts that @npr.org found to be cancelled runs closer to $2 billion.
February 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
More than a third of the contracts DOGE posted online would not actually save any money if canceled, according to DOGE themselves.
In all, estimated savings from the initial DOGE list of just over 500 contracts that @npr.org found to be cancelled runs closer to $2 billion.
In all, estimated savings from the initial DOGE list of just over 500 contracts that @npr.org found to be cancelled runs closer to $2 billion.
Recently on the team blog: Elections developer Shajia Abidi wrote about some experiments with AP testing and results data, Github Actions and Slack notifiers. blog.apps.npr.org/2025/01/29/e...
Elections Slackbots
How we used GitHub and Slack to stay up to date during the 2024 election season.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Recently on the team blog: Elections developer Shajia Abidi wrote about some experiments with AP testing and results data, Github Actions and Slack notifiers. blog.apps.npr.org/2025/01/29/e...
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Everything is a 403 right now, e.g. www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TI...
February 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Everything is a 403 right now, e.g. www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TI...
In love with this Reuters piece about cozy games that is itself a cozy game. www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety.
Explore a charming town, meet quirky villagers, and take in the cozy vibes!
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January 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In love with this Reuters piece about cozy games that is itself a cozy game. www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...