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Danielle Alberti
@daniellealberti.bsky.social
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Axios managing editor for data viz, previously at Pew Research
My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps
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Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.
Google maps screenshot showing top review keywords, including drunken noodles, catfish, and object-relational mapping. A review shows a mention of the Lao stew "orm."
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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My stained glass quilt pairs well with my quilt stained glass
A wall hanging showing a great blue heron in stained glass style next to a stained glass panel of a quilt block.
September 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.
A quilted wall hanging showing a great blue heron standing in water, in a stained glass style.
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.
"respondents were asked to identify Iran on the map" shows a world map covered in yellow dots. Iran is outlined with the annotation "23% correctly identified Iran."
June 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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This morning while talking to my husband about our data viz palette, my 7-year-old got all snarky and asked “how could it possibly matter what color you use for charts?!?”

About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.
Still image from Jurassic Park of Dr. Grant holding a raptor claw threateningly at a wide-eyed child.
May 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com
A bar chart spanning three slides showing the total value of foreign gifts given to U.S. presidents between 2001 and 2023. Barack Obama received the largest total value in gifts, at $2.0m, followed by George W. Bush, $1.1m. The possible gift of a $400m Qatari plane is shown as an incredibly long bar that wraps back and forth across the page. If it were accepted, it would dwarf all the other gifts by far. A continuation of the previous image A continuation of the previous image
May 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Adore this illustration from Sarah Grillo @axios.com. So smart. www.axios.com/2025/04/24/a...
Illustration of The Creation of Adam fresco painting by Michelangelo with multiple extra fingers
April 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Semi-relatedly, I made this bookmark this weekend
A cross-stitched bookmark showing a pigeon looking up from an orange book with text above them saying "I can't read"
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Reading "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing and just got to the part where the Shackleton Expedition convinced one dude they were going to a costume party at the South Georgia home of the whaling factory manager and he was the only one in a costume.
Book excerpt. “[Hudson] owed his nickname — Buddha — to a practical joke he had fallen for once while the ship was at South Georgia. The men had convinced him that there was to be a costume party ashore … and any man who had seen South Georgia with his own eyes — its glaciers and rugged mountains, the stink of whale entrails rotting in the harbor — and who could believe it to be the scene of a costume party … but Hudson did. They got him to remove most of his clothing and they dressed him in a bedsheet. Then they tied the lid of a teapot on his head with pieces of ribbon running under his chin. Thus attired, he was rowed to shore, shivering in the icy blasts that howled down off the mountains. A party was held at the home of the whaling factory manager. But when Hudson walked in, he was most assuredly the only one in costume.”
March 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I'm a fan of using children's book art around the house. I have this one from "hey, al" hanging in my bathroom. I pulled it from an old used copy I found.
An illustration showing a man startled in the middle of shaving by an absolutely gigantic toucan sticking its head through his bathroom window. The man's dog waits outside the door.
March 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I think this image shows it well
A visual comparison of crow beaks (slimmer, straighter) and raven breaks (bigger, curvier, shapelier)
March 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Just want to share the painting of the day from my favorite art app.

Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp, 1647

getdailyart.com/en/25074/jac...
"In his 1647 painting, a lively four-year-old girl stands on a checkered stone floor under a curtained portico. She holds a fish in one hand and the paw of a disgruntled cat in the other—an extraordinary and symbolic detail. In the background, a courting couple sits in a garden, while a distant castle completes the scene."
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Well that sure is a sentence.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Screenshot of a news story describing gene Hackman's death. Highlighted portion says "both bodies showed 'obvious signs of death,' the warrant says."
February 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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It could plausibly have been Quebec, but I don't think so. This was the flight path.
Screenshot of FlightAware showing flight path in green over Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.
February 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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I saw this straight line stretching a long distance through Newfoundland and Labrador and can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Anyone know?
View from an airplane window showing a rocky and icy terrain with a straight white line running through it.
February 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Axios screenshot: The bottom line: Chaos isn't an accident. Trump and his aides know that the tsunami of ideas, executive orders and proclamations makes it hard for opponents to unite around a single message. Think about you or your friends: Are you more intrigued or worked up by all his controversial nominees ... or Greenland ... or trade wars ... or USAID ... or Elon Musk ... or Ukraine ... or South Africa ... or TikTok ... or a new sovereign wealth fund ... or Trump's own crypto? No human can process this much he-did-what news this fast.
February 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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A movie that came out before most (all?) of them were born
Screenshot from Axios newsletter. "Some of the young workers on Mr. Musk's team share a similar uniform: blazers worn over T-shirts. At the G.S.A., some staff members began calling the team 'the Bobs,' a reference to management consultant characters from the dark comedy movie 'Office Space' who are responsible for layoffs."
February 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Today's chart from @berkowitzbt.bsky.social @axios.com

Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
A bar chart that illustrates total fentanyl seizures at U.S. borders from fiscal years 2022 to 2025. The Southwest border with Mexico recorded 66,379 pounds seized, while the Northern border with Canada saw only 70 pounds seized.
February 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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And while you're at it, check out Bisa Butler's other work. She primarily does these vivid quilted portraits of Black Americans. Some are famous historical figures, others are regular people who caught her attention in historical photos. It's just breathtaking. www.instagram.com/bisabutler/
Vivid quilted portrait of Harriet Tubman Vivid quilted portrait of a young woman in a broad-brimmed hat, titled "Daughter of the dust."
February 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I'll also share one of my favorite pieces of art, a QUILTED portrait of Octavia Butler, by the incomparable Bisa Butler. You can find her at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
A small quilted portrait of Octavia Butler. She's against a large floral pink and orange background, and her skin in made in vivid shades of pink, orange and blue. A detail shot of Octavia Butler's face in her quilted portrait A detailed shot of Octavia Butler's top in a quilted portrait. One side shows a UFO while the other side shows florals and a baby.
February 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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data.gov yesterday and today
Screenshot of data.gov, "The home of the U.S. government's open data," shows 305,578 datasets available to search. Same as previous screenshot, except the number of datasets available has just been removed outright.
February 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This is the one she made for me when my sweet baby died
Photorealistic embroidery showing a long-haired black and white cat on a blue background surrounded by leaves.
January 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Just wanna share that in addition to being an absolute data viz all-star, @erindataviz.bsky.social is also a goddess among embroiderers.
Data viz women and textile art. Name a more iconic pairing.

www.reddit.com/r/Embroidery...
Screenshot of Reddit post showing a photorealistic embroidery of a cat on a pink background. Erin says "he took 50-60 hours and more than 40 colors of floss."
January 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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(sad (clown)fish)
A black fish with white stripes and a grumpy face hides in some anemone.
January 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It's not your mom's gumbo, I'm sure, but it's damn good anyway.
Andouille, chicken and shrimp gumbo in a white bowl, topped with scallions
January 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM