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Amber Thomas
@amberthomas.bsky.social
Data Viz Engineer at USAFacts. Big fan of using data, visualization, and storytelling to make info simpler and more accessible.

Opinions are my own.
This is very fun! The letters filling the space beneath the line really makes the viz more impactful
November 26, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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You probably know me as the person who made charts out of play doh: www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/d...

Or as a co-founder of @datavizsociety.bsky.social

I want you to know me as a person who can help you build a data viz style guide: www.datavizstyleguide.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini
November 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Interested in how the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social 📊 data viz team builds interactive data tools? The @svelte.dev code powering this recent piece is open source and available on Github: github.com/UrbanInstitu...
November 22, 2024 at 7:34 PM
This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock...

It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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Alexa (@alexaheinrich.bsky.social) has created one of the best resources on digital media accessibility that I've seen. Anyone working in digital media creation should add this to their working library.
Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities.
www.accessible-social.com
Accessible Social
Accessible Social is a free resource and education hub that helps marketers and content creators learn about accessibility and how it relates to social media.
www.accessible-social.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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A list of data/graphics journalists. Since I first started this on the other site, there are SO many more people who do this work.
November 15, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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Here you go. 🫡

Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊

go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
September 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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"a free, open source, and constantly expanding library of knowledge of anything related to information design and visualization (not just data visualization) that I’ll curate. All videos, writings, or any other resource we put online will be freely accessible to and downloadable by anyone."
November 12, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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Hi since we're all here again — we're hiring a (paid, ofc) intern!

We're the dream team, big enough to have resources for ambitious and weird stuff, small enough that no one falls through the cracks. Apply!

careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...
Reuters News Internship Program 2024 (Temp Guild) – New York – Graphics Internship in New York, New York, United States of America | News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters
Apply for Reuters News Internship Program 2024 (Temp Guild) – New York – Graphics Internship job with Thomson Reuters in New York, New York, United States of America. News & Editorial Careers at Thoms...
careers.thomsonreuters.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:35 PM
I've been missing my #dataviz Twitter friends and I hear this is where many of them resettled. Hoping to reconnect! 😊
November 15, 2024 at 2:06 AM