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Christoph Kinkeldey
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visualization lecturer, researcher, developer. datavis, geovis, uncertainty vis. professor of media informatics and data visualization at university of applied sciences hamburg.
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#VISRocks @ieeevis.bsky.social Great evening at #westcoastsocial @aappi.bsky.social truly rocked on base and @geovisual.bsky.social on vocals.
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Met @geovisual.bsky.social‘s data journalism class at HAW Hamburg yesterday. Amazing projects coming soon via fink.hamburg!
July 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
our workshop "uncertainty visualization in data journalism" at univ. of applied sciences hamburg brought together data journalists to reflect on how uncertainty is handled in journalistic work and how it can be communicated more effectively.
🚀 thanks to all who contributed their time and insights!
May 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
i took musk’s call not to donate to wikipedia as an opportunity to donate for wikipedia again. how about you? donate.wikimedia.org
January 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
thrilled to have you join forces with us for this exciting course on data visualization and storytelling! 🚀🚀🚀
🗞️Small life update:
I'm feeling honored to serve as a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg.
I'm teaching data journalism and data visualization together with @geovisual.bsky.social in our course Playful Data Stories. 🪄🧪
December 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM
what a great collection of us election maps from various international news sites - thanks for sharing, lisa!
Curious how different news sites visualize U.S. election results? Here are 25+ links — let me know in the comments which ones I missed!
U.S. news sites
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→ The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
→ The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/elections/re...
November 26, 2024 at 9:03 AM
see you next wednesday at our research and transfer center (ftz) "digital reality" for a cool evening about #dataviz in #xr ! 📈📊🥽
The next Dataviz meetup Hamburg is coming next week!

Join us there and register quickly.

www.meetup.com/data-visuali...
November 1, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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tl,dr; it’s email
September 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
great work! i esp. appreciate the pointer to alternative map-like vis.
Excited to share some work I'll be presenting at @ieeevis.bsky.social 📊 I developed a cheat sheet of strategies for responsive thematic mapping based on interviews & design workshops with visualization/mapping practitioners. Find the cheat sheet here: responsive-vis.github.io/map-cheat-sh...
September 4, 2024 at 1:57 PM
haha, not bad. 📈📉
September 3, 2024 at 12:57 PM
🚨 Job-Alert 🚨 Angewandte Forschung im Bereich Datenvisualisierung / Datenjournalismus

📊 📈 1. Stelle: Schwerpunkt Design (50 % E13 TV-L)
🧮 💾 2. Stelle: Schwerpunkt Data Science (50 % E13 TV-L)
(oder in Personalunion als 100%-Stelle)

Ping me: www.haw-hamburg.de/hochschule/b...
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christoph Kinkeldey, HAW Hamburg
www.haw-hamburg.de
August 26, 2024 at 2:12 PM
🎉 new paper 🎉 at “computer graphics & visual computing (cgvc)” conference, delving into how data analysts in epidemiology handle data uncertainty and how we, as visualization designers, can better support them. preprint and supplemental material here: osf.io/preprints/os... (1/x)
August 15, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Still obsessed with this German stats textbook explaining that linear regression is like fitting a large sheet of paper through a swarm of bees.
June 29, 2024 at 3:53 AM
looking forward to tom's talk tonight at our first creative #datavis #meetup hamburg! 🙌
Happy to present Science Communication Lab projects and sharing insights into design research of #KielSCN at the first #Hamburg Data Visualization #MeeptUp @spiegelmagazin.bsky.social today, 20th June 24 at 6:30 pm. Many thanks for the invitation to
@higsch.com ! lnkd.in/eqnr2rMq #scicomm, #dataviz
June 20, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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Nach dem Totalversagen in Sachen #WissZeitVG versucht das BMBF jetzt auch noch die Wissenschaftsfreiheit abzuräumen. Wie viel Schaden wollt Ihr dem Wissenschaftsstandort D eigentlich noch zufügen? 🤯 Und all das in Zeiten, in denen wissenschaftsfeindliche Kräfte weiter an Boden gewinnen. Unglaublich.
Das BMBF hat geprüft, ob es Hochschulangestellten der FU Berlin, die politische Erklärungen unterschrieben haben, deshalb Fördermittel entziehen kann. Der Mailwechsel dazu ist dokumentiert. Falls noch jemand Illusionen darüber hatte, was das Ministerium unter Wissenschaftsfreiheit versteht.
Als Reaktion auf Kritik: Bildungsministerium wollte Fördermittel streichen
Dem NDR liegen Unterlagen vor, wonach das Bundesministerium für Bildung prüfen wollte, ob kritischen Hochschullehrenden ihre Fördermittel gestrichen werden können. Grundlage der Prüfung ist ein offene...
daserste.ndr.de
June 11, 2024 at 7:47 AM
*the tension rises* 🥁
Pssst Hamburg, we're planning a thing. 📊
June 3, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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Things were not better before, they were better when you were young, no matter when you were born.

Fantastic chart 📊 with such depth and attention to detail by @andrewvandam.bsky.social
May 26, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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🚨 We are hiring!🚨
We, the data & visualizations team at
@spiegelmagazin.bsky.social, are looking for a German speaking data visualization developer! 📊

➡️ That's what we do: spiegel.de/thema/daten-...
➡️ Apply here: jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/11...
💬 matthias.stahl@spiegel.de for questions
Daten und Visualisierungen - DER SPIEGEL
Von Datenanalysen über interaktive Rechner und visuelle Storys bis zu Dashboards und Dauerformaten – hier finden Sie alle Beiträge des Ressorts Daten & Visualisierungen.
spiegel.de
April 30, 2024 at 12:52 PM
thrilled to announce my success with the #DATIpilot pitch for the federal ministry of education and research (BMBF)! got funding for my applied research project developing a toolkit for intuitive #uncertainty #visualization for data journalists #ddj
March 13, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Exciting update! @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social - launch the Interactive Climate Atlas

atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas
This new tool builds on the data of the IPCC Climate Atlas and enables exploration of CMIP6 climate projections and other datasets including observations and reanalysis.
February 20, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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📣📊 We’re excited to announce the first speakers for our Datawrapper conference on March 13-15!

👉 Amanda Cox, on making better simple charts
👉 @juliustroeger.bsky.social, on animations & scroll formats
👉 C.J. Sinner, on creating scatterplot awesomeness

Register here: www.datawrapper.de/unwrapped
Join us for Unwrapped, March 13-15
Learn how others are making the most of Datawrapper at our free, virtual conference.
www.datawrapper.de
January 29, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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This is a soft launch just for Bluesky people!

In Feb I'm launching the 'Visualising Data Newsletter' offering a monthly chronicle of the most insightful and delightful data viz content, straight to your inbox.

More info soon but you can sign up here...

visualisingdata.ck.page/b9efcf751f
January 2, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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2023 was the warmest year on record globally by a large margin. Another dark red stripe gets added, though I think I need a new colour.
#ShowYourStripes
January 1, 2024 at 9:09 PM
yay, the timeviz browser 2.0 is out!
the 2nd edition of the book Visualization of Time-Oriented Data is published, and the The TimeViz Browser has gotten an update too: browser.timeviz.net #dataviz #time
December 23, 2023 at 2:08 PM
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December 23, 2023 at 1:54 PM