Tom deBruyn
@t-cmyk.bsky.social
Systems Designer, currently in 📊 Data Viz at Ford. Opinions are my own. 🌳⚡️🤓, 🪵🪚🪑, 🍄🟫 🍜 😋 📍 Minneapolis, MN 🇺🇸
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here are my recommendations for mayor, city council, park board, and BET for tuesday! and this was a good excuse to share some photos from covering campaigns this year
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2025 Minneapolis Election Recommendations
Here are my recommendations for the municipal election in Minneapolis coming up on November 4, 2025, and some photos I've taken this year.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
here are my recommendations for mayor, city council, park board, and BET for tuesday! and this was a good excuse to share some photos from covering campaigns this year
taylordahlin.com/f/2025-minne...
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Oh boy, do we need people to learn how to read a chart. Rollie, thanks for your service. A @climatetown.bsky.social masterclass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bM...
Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
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August 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Oh boy, do we need people to learn how to read a chart. Rollie, thanks for your service. A @climatetown.bsky.social masterclass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bM...
I love a little whimsy now and then.
July 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I love a little whimsy now and then.
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Has someone done a good compendium of research on visual perceptions that are culturally dependent / vary clearly by culture in surprising ways? Would be useful for design. Fwiw nearly everything about understanding visualization is of course about aquired literacy. 📊
I can happily shift at will between squares and circles, it feels multistable to me. But the real-world relevance might crop up in visual communications design, which is full of conventions that ”feel” universal but are culturally learned.
July 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Has someone done a good compendium of research on visual perceptions that are culturally dependent / vary clearly by culture in surprising ways? Would be useful for design. Fwiw nearly everything about understanding visualization is of course about aquired literacy. 📊
Spending the day with the birds, this good boy, and trying my hand at smoking a Brisket for the first time. So far so good.
July 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Spending the day with the birds, this good boy, and trying my hand at smoking a Brisket for the first time. So far so good.
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Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
July 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
Saw this really cool scatterplot grouping chart that showed companies ranking along many factors: innovation, work life balance, agility, pay, etc. it had Ford, google, Lockheed Martin, other Tech giants. I’m searching for it and coming up empty. Anyone else see it and could send it my way?
June 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Saw this really cool scatterplot grouping chart that showed companies ranking along many factors: innovation, work life balance, agility, pay, etc. it had Ford, google, Lockheed Martin, other Tech giants. I’m searching for it and coming up empty. Anyone else see it and could send it my way?
🤯 daniel.aagentah.tech/archive/new-... this is so inspiring!!
daniel.aagentah.tech
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June 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
🤯 daniel.aagentah.tech/archive/new-... this is so inspiring!!
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Read it. Print it. Frame it. Hang it on the Louvre. It's a masterpiece.
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch.
Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
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May 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Read it. Print it. Frame it. Hang it on the Louvre. It's a masterpiece.
@figma.com I’m building charts in our library and I love Grid! Q: Since cells can’t have strokes, I need objects in the cells to add grid lines in X&Y axis charts like a scatterplot. But then the cells are occupied and chart marks don’t resize appropriately. What’s the fix?
May 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@figma.com I’m building charts in our library and I love Grid! Q: Since cells can’t have strokes, I need objects in the cells to add grid lines in X&Y axis charts like a scatterplot. But then the cells are occupied and chart marks don’t resize appropriately. What’s the fix?
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It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.
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The entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness appears on the map cited in the Secretary's Memorandum 1078-006 of April 3, 2025, Increasing Timber Production And Designating An Emergency Situation On National Forest System Lands.
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness appears on the map cited in the Secretary's Memorandum 1078-006 of April 3, 2025, Increasing Timber Production And Designating An Emergency Situation On National Forest System Lands.
Love the new Doechii album.
March 18, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Love the new Doechii album.
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📊 #datavis #job:
Graphics Assignment Editor at The Washington Post, Washington DC: washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpo...
Graphics Assignment Editor at The Washington Post, Washington DC: washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpo...
March 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
📊 #datavis #job:
Graphics Assignment Editor at The Washington Post, Washington DC: washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpo...
Graphics Assignment Editor at The Washington Post, Washington DC: washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpo...
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📊 #Datavis #job:
Computational Journalist at ProPublica, New York, United States: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
via bsky.app/profile/robw...
Computational Journalist at ProPublica, New York, United States: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
via bsky.app/profile/robw...
March 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📊 #Datavis #job:
Computational Journalist at ProPublica, New York, United States: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
via bsky.app/profile/robw...
Computational Journalist at ProPublica, New York, United States: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
via bsky.app/profile/robw...
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Be kind to a someone today. Everyone is walking around scared. Some are right on the edge and others push it to their unconscious but no one is immune. This plane has all the makings of hell but it can be the opposite when we connect with each other
March 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Be kind to a someone today. Everyone is walking around scared. Some are right on the edge and others push it to their unconscious but no one is immune. This plane has all the makings of hell but it can be the opposite when we connect with each other
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*Chart* guerilla, no less 📊
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
*Chart* guerilla, no less 📊
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Breaking News: President Trump signed a full pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who was convicted of corruption in 2011.
Trump Pardons Rod Blagojevich, the Former Illinois Governor
The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as “Blago.”
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February 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Breaking News: President Trump signed a full pardon for Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois who was convicted of corruption in 2011.
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Ok, yes, everything is terrible, but this labeller is AMAZING and actually makes me feel hopeful about the social web
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February 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Ok, yes, everything is terrible, but this labeller is AMAZING and actually makes me feel hopeful about the social web
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Friends, you have until Friday to sign up for the spring cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials with the early bird discount.
Cultivate an observational practice, (re)kindle your love for creative code, and learn a lot about birds + data!
WOODCOCK gets you 15% off!
www.jerthorp.me/learning
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Cultivate an observational practice, (re)kindle your love for creative code, and learn a lot about birds + data!
WOODCOCK gets you 15% off!
www.jerthorp.me/learning
🪶📊
January 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Friends, you have until Friday to sign up for the spring cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials with the early bird discount.
Cultivate an observational practice, (re)kindle your love for creative code, and learn a lot about birds + data!
WOODCOCK gets you 15% off!
www.jerthorp.me/learning
🪶📊
Cultivate an observational practice, (re)kindle your love for creative code, and learn a lot about birds + data!
WOODCOCK gets you 15% off!
www.jerthorp.me/learning
🪶📊
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I have been wondering about the silence of my American (#dataviz) network. People that were online often before aren't posting or very rarely. I do get it, it is exhausting to feel anxious almost nonstop but I just hope that a sense of urgency will surface and voices reclaimed.
Sending love ❤️🩹
Sending love ❤️🩹
Political fear, media polarization, and identity-driven politics have fueled exhaustion and learned helplessness in Americans, leading many to disengage from political news. #Politics #PoliticalNews #MediaPolarization #Neuroscience #Exhaustion
A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics
Political fear, media polarization, and identity-driven politics have fueled exhaustion and learned helplessness in Americans, leading many to disengage from political news.
www.psypost.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I have been wondering about the silence of my American (#dataviz) network. People that were online often before aren't posting or very rarely. I do get it, it is exhausting to feel anxious almost nonstop but I just hope that a sense of urgency will surface and voices reclaimed.
Sending love ❤️🩹
Sending love ❤️🩹
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The influx of scientists and science-interested people has been one of my favourite things about this place. Nice to have you all here 😀
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
go.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The influx of scientists and science-interested people has been one of my favourite things about this place. Nice to have you all here 😀