Noah Iliinsky
@noah-i.bsky.social
UX, visualization, & info designer, IA. Climate hawk. Feminist, anti-racist SJW. Practical cyclist. Vis books author & editor, speaker. Will block fascists. he/him
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Noah Iliinsky
@noah-i.bsky.social
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Step 5: What graph do I use?
4: What data matters?
3: What Q's need answering?
2: What actions do I need to inform?
1: What do I care about?
4: What data matters?
3: What Q's need answering?
2: What actions do I need to inform?
1: What do I care about?
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One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.
by @TheEconomist
by @TheEconomist
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
I was excited when I first read this as bar charts.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I was excited when I first read this as bar charts.
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Every new exciting development in cancer vaccine research depresses me anew.
Not because my wife didn’t survive long enough to benefit from it, but because the administration is dismantling the systems of caring for each other as a society (which includes boomed research)
Not because my wife didn’t survive long enough to benefit from it, but because the administration is dismantling the systems of caring for each other as a society (which includes boomed research)
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Every new exciting development in cancer vaccine research depresses me anew.
Not because my wife didn’t survive long enough to benefit from it, but because the administration is dismantling the systems of caring for each other as a society (which includes boomed research)
Not because my wife didn’t survive long enough to benefit from it, but because the administration is dismantling the systems of caring for each other as a society (which includes boomed research)
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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney
This thread is incredible.
In Memoriam:
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This thread is incredible.
I miss #Hipmunk every time I book air travel. Their time bars display and UX was the absolute best flight search experience.
ITA Matrix still has time bars, but goog has left the UX rough, rather than upgrading it or incorporating time bars into flights.google.com.
#visualization
ITA Matrix still has time bars, but goog has left the UX rough, rather than upgrading it or incorporating time bars into flights.google.com.
#visualization
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I miss #Hipmunk every time I book air travel. Their time bars display and UX was the absolute best flight search experience.
ITA Matrix still has time bars, but goog has left the UX rough, rather than upgrading it or incorporating time bars into flights.google.com.
#visualization
ITA Matrix still has time bars, but goog has left the UX rough, rather than upgrading it or incorporating time bars into flights.google.com.
#visualization
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On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...
April 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...
Today would be a good day to support the nonprofit platforms you rely on. I have recurring monthly donations set up for @wikipedia.org and @signal.org Please join me in supporting these vital resources.
October 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Today would be a good day to support the nonprofit platforms you rely on. I have recurring monthly donations set up for @wikipedia.org and @signal.org Please join me in supporting these vital resources.
A late acquaintance of mine who worked in public health policy (Deborah Roseman) always said policy should be based on evidence and empathy. I have never forgotten that. It’s an unassailable standard.
October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A late acquaintance of mine who worked in public health policy (Deborah Roseman) always said policy should be based on evidence and empathy. I have never forgotten that. It’s an unassailable standard.
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just gonna leave this here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...
October 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
just gonna leave this here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2...
Here's a fun data & visualization project idea: survey several top 100 albums lists. Represent the assorted rankings of the same albums across lists. (Maybe a bump chart?) For extra credit note outlier inclusions and exclusions of particular lists.
October 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Here's a fun data & visualization project idea: survey several top 100 albums lists. Represent the assorted rankings of the same albums across lists. (Maybe a bump chart?) For extra credit note outlier inclusions and exclusions of particular lists.
Harrell is crashing and burning. Wheels coming off the bus.
It’s eerie how Trumpy his tone becomes when Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell gets the mildest challenge from a journalist.
You can almost hear “Justin… can I call you Justin? You know, I almost liked you…”
You can almost hear “Justin… can I call you Justin? You know, I almost liked you…”
October 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Harrell is crashing and burning. Wheels coming off the bus.
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I've more than once seen people who know this stuff saying that we don't actually know what the diagnostic criteria for "autistic person without cPTSD" would be, because as far as can be determined we don't know of any.
I genuinely am shocked to think that there may be autistic people out in the world who *don't* have CPTSD because existing in our current society as autistic is so fundamentally traumatic
No shit we all have CPTSD. We've been violently depersonalized our whole lives, completely disconnected from who and what we are until we finally figure it out, and when we do and talk about it there's a chance some redditors will appear out of thin air to tell us we're delusional.
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I've more than once seen people who know this stuff saying that we don't actually know what the diagnostic criteria for "autistic person without cPTSD" would be, because as far as can be determined we don't know of any.
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"This is not the time for hope," is a hell of a slogan. A+
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"This is not the time for hope," is a hell of a slogan. A+
I know who I’m voting for. And it’s not the aggressive mansplainer.
In his closing statement, Harrell said, "This is not the time for hope. Passion and great ideas and inexperience is just not going to get us there. Trump will walk all over a person without experience, period."
October 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I know who I’m voting for. And it’s not the aggressive mansplainer.
Not taking a stand absolutely, definitionally, puts you on the side of the abuser. Always.
Silence is complicity.
Silence is complicity.
A very basic problem with centrism is that by definition it means you are willing to listen to both sides. One of those sides is nazis. It requires you listening to a nazi and going "he makes some good points."
"Wait, you're a centrist? So you like, listen to Nick Fuentes? Willingly?"
"Wait, you're a centrist? So you like, listen to Nick Fuentes? Willingly?"
August 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Not taking a stand absolutely, definitionally, puts you on the side of the abuser. Always.
Silence is complicity.
Silence is complicity.
If you want to hear me rant about smart defaults, bar graphs, and bicycles, start at 38:50.
Episode #18: @noah-i.bsky.social on *China Mountain Zhang* by Maureen F. McHugh
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Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang
Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
If you want to hear me rant about smart defaults, bar graphs, and bicycles, start at 38:50.
My partner @taephoenix.bsky.social is a huge baseball fan. I'm a data vis nerd. Our powers combined bring you this graphic.
Seattle @mariners.com Cal Raleigh is tied at 41 with all-time greats Roy Campanella and Todd Huntley for most home runs by a catcher in a single season.
Seattle @mariners.com Cal Raleigh is tied at 41 with all-time greats Roy Campanella and Todd Huntley for most home runs by a catcher in a single season.
July 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
My partner @taephoenix.bsky.social is a huge baseball fan. I'm a data vis nerd. Our powers combined bring you this graphic.
Seattle @mariners.com Cal Raleigh is tied at 41 with all-time greats Roy Campanella and Todd Huntley for most home runs by a catcher in a single season.
Seattle @mariners.com Cal Raleigh is tied at 41 with all-time greats Roy Campanella and Todd Huntley for most home runs by a catcher in a single season.
Had a great time talking with @jed.co about one of my favorite books, China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh. This book was inspiring for me early in my design career. Thank you for having me on the show!
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July 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Had a great time talking with @jed.co about one of my favorite books, China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen F. McHugh. This book was inspiring for me early in my design career. Thank you for having me on the show!
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
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The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…
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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
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Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.
May 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Police officers are killing more Americans than then they did five years ago when they killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Too many people have been deluded into believing the problem is the problem solvers, the perpetrators are the victims, and the treatment is the disease.