Eva Richter
evarichter.bsky.social
Eva Richter
@evarichter.bsky.social
Data Investigator at Global Witness

interested in climate journalism, creative exploration, craft projects, climbing rock
As it is still extremely topical and one of the best examples of non-conventional approaches to #datavis, I highly recommend reading about this simulated dendrochronology (science of tree rings) of US immigration, where each year in US history is a tree ring: pmcruz.com/dendrochrono...
April 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Global Witness commissioned sediment samples around the Veolia landfill. All four showed mercury contamination levels that exceeded quality guidelines, as visualised here:
March 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is the Raspberry Pi setup. It's attached to a microphone on the outside that records bird sounds (and only that!). The sounds are classified using BirdNet (birdnet.cornell.edu), a popular bird classification machine learning model.
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Since I'm working on my #datavisualization skills, I made a few charts to visualize this data.

The house sparrow clearly takes the win for the noisiest bird.
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My dad loves birds. So last November, we installed a microphone attached to a @raspberrypi.com with a bird sound classifier in our small garden in Heidelberg, Germany.

It's been identifying every bird noise ever since. Here's the data so far:
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A new investigation by Global Witness reveals TikTok and X recommend more right-leaning than left-leaning political content to non-partisan German users.

Read about it here:

techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

Or read the full report here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/global...
February 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Remote sensors pick up light that is not visible to the human eye. If we map them to visible channels, we see things we would otherwise not see. These two images from NASA's satellite program Landsat show Los Angeles and its surrounding area in January 2024 and in January 2025.
February 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM