Elsie LR
@elsieleerobbins.bsky.social
Data Visualization Specialist (she/her) #dataviz 📊
What an amazing #Outlier2025 conference this year! Here are just a few of my highlights, out of the MANY talks and speakers I loved.
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What an amazing #Outlier2025 conference this year! Here are just a few of my highlights, out of the MANY talks and speakers I loved.
‘What if we started with ”what if”’? Excited to reimagine data visualization at Outlier virtually this year! 📊
June 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
‘What if we started with ”what if”’? Excited to reimagine data visualization at Outlier virtually this year! 📊
After trying a few different tax filing systems, I highly recommend FreeTaxUSA. I used them this year and it was so easy and great and free for federal taxes and only $15 for filing state taxes.
March 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
After trying a few different tax filing systems, I highly recommend FreeTaxUSA. I used them this year and it was so easy and great and free for federal taxes and only $15 for filing state taxes.
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National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.
National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet.
As the administration fires rangers and other workers, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.
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This has been doing the rounds this week for its topic and interactivity, but reading it in detail today makes me admire the writing. It is so precise. It's a feat onto itself and part of the general elegance.
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This has been doing the rounds this week for its topic and interactivity, but reading it in detail today makes me admire the writing. It is so precise. It's a feat onto itself and part of the general elegance.
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
www.kcur.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
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My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever...
Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever...
Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.
Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted
Space traveler demographics have shifted over time
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever...
Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever...
Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.
Loving this viz from The Little Book of Hygge, what a fun way to show a ton of data points on a small page by overlapping them
January 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Loving this viz from The Little Book of Hygge, what a fun way to show a ton of data points on a small page by overlapping them
Instead of writing something that makes sense on our felt board, Taylor and I have started just taking the letters that are already there and anagram them into something else (one letter swap allowed)
January 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Instead of writing something that makes sense on our felt board, Taylor and I have started just taking the letters that are already there and anagram them into something else (one letter swap allowed)
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We're reading Data Sketches for this month's DVS Readers' Club. The authors Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu will be joining us on Jan 25, so come ready with your questions during the Q&A session. Register: https://buff.ly/409TLxF
January 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We're reading Data Sketches for this month's DVS Readers' Club. The authors Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu will be joining us on Jan 25, so come ready with your questions during the Q&A session. Register: https://buff.ly/409TLxF
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
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If you’d like the citation for that statement, it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5C report, which concluded:
January 9, 2025 at 5:30 AM
If you’d like the citation for that statement, it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5C report, which concluded:
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
I went to the DVS coworking event today to ideate on a data vis project… is it stupid to do a datavis on my personal carbon footprint? lmk
January 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I went to the DVS coworking event today to ideate on a data vis project… is it stupid to do a datavis on my personal carbon footprint? lmk
Did I get my nephew Encyclopedia Infographica for Christmas for him or was it because I wanted to read it? 🌋 📊
January 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Did I get my nephew Encyclopedia Infographica for Christmas for him or was it because I wanted to read it? 🌋 📊
I walked outside today and it was 58°. In DECEMBER. Is anyone else distressed by this??
December 11, 2024 at 12:21 PM
I walked outside today and it was 58°. In DECEMBER. Is anyone else distressed by this??
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
Accidentally fell asleep while listening to an audiobook and now I am on Chapter 5 and have no idea how much I need to rewind
November 20, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Accidentally fell asleep while listening to an audiobook and now I am on Chapter 5 and have no idea how much I need to rewind
Giorgia Lupi on collecting data - "What we decide to focus on kind of shapes your reality" www.youtube.com/live/VZ-cw76... 📊
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November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Giorgia Lupi on collecting data - "What we decide to focus on kind of shapes your reality" www.youtube.com/live/VZ-cw76... 📊
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We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes.com management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.
November 4, 2024 at 12:45 PM
We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes.com management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.
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If you're working through your PhD in #dataviz or in a related field, come and share ideas, discuss your work, and make new connections. This event is open to all levels of experience. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dataviz-ph...
October 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
If you're working through your PhD in #dataviz or in a related field, come and share ideas, discuss your work, and make new connections. This event is open to all levels of experience. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dataviz-ph...
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Plugged it discord, but posting our alt vis (alt #ieeevis ? ) from last year here too. Come for the incredibly good figure(s), stay for our enumeration of different conference formats that might sustain vis in light of the climate crisis
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15429
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15429
October 16, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Plugged it discord, but posting our alt vis (alt #ieeevis ? ) from last year here too. Come for the incredibly good figure(s), stay for our enumeration of different conference formats that might sustain vis in light of the climate crisis
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15429
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15429