Michiel Duvekot
@duvekot.bsky.social
#kakistographs
from Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, 'worst')
from Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, 'worst')
Never tell a data visualization designer how old you are, lest you fall into one of their "age cohorts" and they start personalizing their charts "for your age": ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...
#dataviz 📊
#dataviz 📊
An Age-based Study into Interactive Narrative Visualization Engagement
Research has shown that an audiences' age impacts their engagement in digital media. Interactive narrative visualization is an increasingly popular form of digital media that combines data visualizati...
ieeexplore.ieee.org
August 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Never tell a data visualization designer how old you are, lest you fall into one of their "age cohorts" and they start personalizing their charts "for your age": ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110...
#dataviz 📊
#dataviz 📊
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
Civic Spark is built by us — the civic tech community.
Join us Aug 16–17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life.
Full story → civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
Tickets → civic-spark.com
Join us Aug 16–17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life.
Full story → civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
Tickets → civic-spark.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Civic Spark is built by us — the civic tech community.
Join us Aug 16–17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life.
Full story → civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
Tickets → civic-spark.com
Join us Aug 16–17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life.
Full story → civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark
Tickets → civic-spark.com
If you think you're 20% faster but you're actually 19% slower, you're 32.5% slower than you think.
July 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you think you're 20% faster but you're actually 19% slower, you're 32.5% slower than you think.
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
how the side the on the left keeps convincing the side on the right that they need more space is beyond me
July 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
how the side the on the left keeps convincing the side on the right that they need more space is beyond me
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
Today is #showyourstripes.
The design of the stripes is deceptively simple. We tried to understand it and even spoke to Ed Hawkins about it, and they are actually harder to explain than it seems!
The design of the stripes is deceptively simple. We tried to understand it and even spoke to Ed Hawkins about it, and they are actually harder to explain than it seems!
Do you really understand the influential warming stripes? - Voilà:
Chances are that you’ve come across this image somewhere: Warming stripes for the globe from 1850-2018 You may have seen this elegant visualisation of rising global temperatures on social media, on th...
chezvoila.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Today is #showyourstripes.
The design of the stripes is deceptively simple. We tried to understand it and even spoke to Ed Hawkins about it, and they are actually harder to explain than it seems!
The design of the stripes is deceptively simple. We tried to understand it and even spoke to Ed Hawkins about it, and they are actually harder to explain than it seems!
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! Perhaps look at some stunningly beautiful art to celebrate: iningatilagiit.ca
ᐃᓂᖓᑦ ᐃᓚᒌᑦ Iningat Ilagiit | Connecting through the Cape Dorset Archive
WELCOME TO ININGAT ILAGIIT Inuit artists from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) have created thousands of drawings over many decades. An archive of over 80,000 drawings made between the 1950s and 1990 is housed ...
iningatilagiit.ca
June 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! Perhaps look at some stunningly beautiful art to celebrate: iningatilagiit.ca
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
Introducing VizDex!
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
VizDex
A library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Introducing VizDex!
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
Good stuff from @abmakulec.bsky.social
vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/why-humans...
Here's my version of the Edelman Trust Barometer visualization"
vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/why-humans...
Here's my version of the Edelman Trust Barometer visualization"
June 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Good stuff from @abmakulec.bsky.social
vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/why-humans...
Here's my version of the Edelman Trust Barometer visualization"
vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/why-humans...
Here's my version of the Edelman Trust Barometer visualization"
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
A short #thread on my Recalibrate talk at Data+Women.
Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects.
#dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4
Do let me know what think/feel 🙏
youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...
Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects.
#dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4
Do let me know what think/feel 🙏
youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...
Data Art - Recalibrate
YouTube video by Annabelle Rincon
youtu.be
June 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A short #thread on my Recalibrate talk at Data+Women.
Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects.
#dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4
Do let me know what think/feel 🙏
youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...
Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects.
#dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4
Do let me know what think/feel 🙏
youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...
This gave me hope that a liberatory data feminism can move the field forward and make the world a little better: 📊 ✊
Smooth and Striated Data Visualization
Or: The Chart and Revolution
mcorrell.medium.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This gave me hope that a liberatory data feminism can move the field forward and make the world a little better: 📊 ✊
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recent experiment mapping daily travel mode share in Toronto via weaving space
more info about this little project here: schoolofcities.github.io/transportati...
#toronto #maps #gis #dataviz
more info about this little project here: schoolofcities.github.io/transportati...
#toronto #maps #gis #dataviz
June 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
recent experiment mapping daily travel mode share in Toronto via weaving space
more info about this little project here: schoolofcities.github.io/transportati...
#toronto #maps #gis #dataviz
more info about this little project here: schoolofcities.github.io/transportati...
#toronto #maps #gis #dataviz
Good: www.datachangemakers.org 📊
Data Changemakers | Data drives real change. We're here to make sure it does for evey mission driven organization.
Inspired by the success of Viz for Social Good, Data ChangeMakers empowers data enthusiasts to deliver data-driven solutions and create meaningful impact
www.datachangemakers.org
June 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Good: www.datachangemakers.org 📊
Here's an idea I like: "build up from simpler graphs, explaining each new degree of freedom as it comes up" statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/31/t...
The ladder of abstraction in statistical graphics | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
May 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Here's an idea I like: "build up from simpler graphs, explaining each new degree of freedom as it comes up" statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/31/t...
Know your enemy: When Fascists Chart www.chartography.net/p/when-fasci...
When Fascists Chart
1940s Nazi information-graphic propaganda from Signal magazine.
www.chartography.net
May 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Know your enemy: When Fascists Chart www.chartography.net/p/when-fasci...
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
Are you aware of any data visualization designs that use optical illusions to enhance the intended message?
May 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Are you aware of any data visualization designs that use optical illusions to enhance the intended message?
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
We’re putting on a conference!
Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025
civic-spark.com
Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside.
Help change that. 🧵
Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025
civic-spark.com
Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside.
Help change that. 🧵
May 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We’re putting on a conference!
Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025
civic-spark.com
Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside.
Help change that. 🧵
Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025
civic-spark.com
Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside.
Help change that. 🧵
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
BREAKING: A federal judge finds Trump’s order banning transgender people from getting accurate passports is likely unconstitutional.
The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.
The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.
April 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge finds Trump’s order banning transgender people from getting accurate passports is likely unconstitutional.
The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.
The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.
Getting cognitive dissonance from reading an article on why radar charts are the worst observablehq.com/blog/avoid-r... (agreeing vehemently), and then reading another article www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi... with a very nice example of a radar chart (but... that's pretty good)
#datavis 📊
#datavis 📊
Building better data tools with Observable | Observable blogLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTubeLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTube
Articles and content designed to help you build stronger dashboards, data apps, and reports.
observablehq.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Getting cognitive dissonance from reading an article on why radar charts are the worst observablehq.com/blog/avoid-r... (agreeing vehemently), and then reading another article www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi... with a very nice example of a radar chart (but... that's pretty good)
#datavis 📊
#datavis 📊
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
New blog post out (first one in over a year 🥵): I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility principles, and explained where things went wrong, including lots of demos.
fossheim.io/writing/post...
fossheim.io/writing/post...
Dataviz accessibility principles, demonstrated by the 2024 presidential election dashboards. by Sarah L. Fossheim
I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong (including lots of demos).
fossheim.io
December 2, 2024 at 8:35 PM
New blog post out (first one in over a year 🥵): I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility principles, and explained where things went wrong, including lots of demos.
fossheim.io/writing/post...
fossheim.io/writing/post...
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
We're finally on Bluesky!
February 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
We're finally on Bluesky!
Reposted by Michiel Duvekot
HOW TO GET STARTED ON DATAVIZ BLUESKY 📊 IN 9 STEPS
If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it.
Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it.
🧵👇
If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it.
Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it.
🧵👇
January 29, 2024 at 3:03 PM
HOW TO GET STARTED ON DATAVIZ BLUESKY 📊 IN 9 STEPS
If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it.
Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it.
🧵👇
If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it.
Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it.
🧵👇