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Fil

@fil.rezo.net

AMA about my love of maps
observablehq.com/blog/maps-an...

thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

Fil Rivière, Data Visualization Engineer at Observable, describes his path into data visualization, what he likes in a map, what’s hard about mapmaking, and why he’s asking if we need a “slow cartogra...

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February 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Dakota Sexton

@tinykitelab.com

I've often wanted to be able to easily reference what farms are growing medicinal herbs with a focus on sustainable + regenerative practices. As a designer, I also thought it'd be fun to present that info in a searchable, interactive map.

So as a side project, I created herbatlas.fyi

#dataviz

Herb Atlas

Herb Atlas is an interactive map that highlights small, human-scale farms growing medicinal herbs with a commitment to sustainable farming practices.

herbatlas.fyi

January 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM

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Jared Whalen

@jaredwhalen.com

First post! My latest from @visuals.axios.com: How a ransomware attack works

This was a fun project to build. Probably the most CSS animations I've forced into a single page ✨

Words by @samsabin.bsky.social, illustration by Aïda Amer, dev by me.

www.axios.com/visuals/comp...

How a gang's takedown revealed their playbook behind ransomware attacks

One of the most devastating cyberattacks plaguing companies today has been around for a decade — and its perpetrators have hardly had to innovate to stay profitable.

www.axios.com

January 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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Robert Simmon

@rsimmon.bsky.social

Cool color-mixing paper using the Kubelka–Munk model (which incorporates light absorption & scattering) to simulate real life paint behavior in software: scrtwpns.com/mixbox.pdf

It would be interesting to play with to generate #dataviz palettes.

via @jscarto.bsky.social & Jack Morris

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Diagram with three sets of color ramps comparing real life paint mixing with digital color models. The first two compare magenta to white and blue to white, the third blue to yellow.

Caption 1: Real paints gain saturation and shift in hue when mixed with white, as exhibited by Quinacridone Magenta (left) and Phthalo Blue (right). These effects are reproduced faithfully by the K–M model, unlike RGB, where colors tend to lose saturation when mixed with white.

Caption 2: Mixing Cobalt Blue and Hansa Yellow in real life vs. in RGB, RYB [Gos- sett and Chen 2004], Subtractive, Subtractive-Additive [Simonot and Hébert 2014] and K–M model. The ad-hoc approaches are unable to match the K–M’s ability to predict the outcome of two pigments mixing together.

Sample of simulated color mixing with different types of paint using the Kubelka–Munk model.

Caption: This digital painting was done using our pigment-based color mixing approach. It was painted on an 8-bit RGB canvas with colors picked from a regular HSV wheel. Thanks to our mixing method, all simulated media such as oil paints, watercolor, or pastels look realistic and natural. The paints blend intuitively and produce vibrant secondary colors: orange, violet, and most critically, green.

Diagram comparing RGB color mixing on the left compared to the Kubelka–Munk model on the right. Each column has three examples.

Caption: The effect pigment-based color mixing has on traditional media simulation. When mixed in RGB, paints blend into grayish, dull colors, while our method yields intuitive, natural shades and brings the simulation of oil paints, pastels, watercolor, and other media to the next level.

January 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

🌟 Professional news 🌟

Today I joined @observablehq.com as a UX Designer to help build the next generation of awesome data + viz products! I've been a fan and user of Observable since the beginning, so I'm very excited to be a part of the journey and join such an inspiring team 🤗

January 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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Joe Davies

@joewdavies.bsky.social

Bivariate maps showing the relationships between Temperature and Precipitation.

Made with Plot, based on a great tutorial by Fil: observablehq.com/@jo...

Data from TerraClimate (1958-present).

#cartography #maps #mapping #climate #dataviz #SciArt

January 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Axios Visuals

@visuals.axios.com

Have you seen the best of Axios Visuals 2024 yet? Come for the bitcoin ETF saga timeline, stay for an investigation into how many cupholders different countries put on their boats, an analysis of cicada brood sizes, and dancing Nerds.

graphics.axios.com/2024-visuals...

Animated illustration of an iced coffee and a hot coffee, both with arms and legs, arguing about which one is better than the other.

January 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM

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Priya Misner

@priyamisner.bsky.social

project 1: Map Designer, a #dataviz tool and @figma.com plug in that simplifies the process creating and customizing maps in Figma! Had a lot of fun learning how to translate d3-geo's svg paths into Figma's vector networks.

try it out and let me know what you think! www.figma.com/community/pl...

January 2, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

CEO Unveils Bold New Plan To Undo Damage From Last Year’s Bold New Plan
theonion.com/ceo-unveils-...

December 31, 2024 at 8:21 PM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

Undershirt coordinated with the orange, belt cinching the jumpsuit to build a snatched silhouette. Someone’s been going to the Anna Delvey school of prison styling

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Dec 19

seems a bit dramatic

Luigi Mangione is escorted by several police officers and Mayor Eric Adams in New York.

December 20, 2024 at 3:11 AM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

We have the Juicy Lucy, a cheeseburger with cheese on the inside of the patty. Why? So you can get squirted in the face with boiling hot cheese on your first bite, and said cheese can then drool out onto your plate leaving you with a dry cheeseless burger!

Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · Dec 18

most places in the us have a bad/boring joke food that they like to fool everyone else into thinking they like. for example louisville has the hot brown, an extremely off-putting meal no one there ever eats but tricks visitors into trying. if your community doesn't have a shitty joke food, start one

December 19, 2024 at 5:06 AM

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Datawrapper

@datawrapper.de

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁 https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

Table of the scientific classification of the flower Dryas octopetala annotated with a handmade illustration. Created by Eleni from the Datawrapper team.

Screenshot of I “Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found”. Shown is a network graph of all Wikipedia articles and the links between them, resulting in a colourful representation of the world's collective knowledge. Among the most interesting findings are so-called communities, groups of articles that are more closely linked to each other than the rest of the site, represented by the individual colours. Published on YouTube by adumb.

This image shows a spectrogram of three sound types: elephant rumbles (mostly infrasonic, red), human speaking (audible range, blue), and bat noises (ultrasonic, yellow and blue), with frequency increasing from bottom to top on a logarithmic scale. Published by Financial Times.

Map of downtown Singapore with little 3D butterflies added where butterflies have been spotted in the area. Different colored butterflies represent different species. Published in The Straits Times.

December 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

Me and my bestie in 30 years talking about waluigi

December 9, 2024 at 11:22 PM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

Me hosting Thanksgiving

A collage of Jamie Lee Curtis in the Seven Fishes episode of The Bear

November 27, 2024 at 7:18 PM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

Brining chicken in a pitcher because Thanksgiving

November 27, 2024 at 5:40 PM

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd

@alexselbyb.bsky.social

He forgot the first rule: don't get high on your own supply
www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Chart by The Economist showing tweets by Elon Musk from 2014 to 2024, by time of day. There is a considerable increase in volume after he bought Twitter at the end of 2022, and fallow periods throughout the day seem to dwindle

November 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM

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RJ Andrews

@infowetrust.com

congrats to @pinakographos.bsky.social & @awoodruff.bsky.social for launching mapartists.org

"A shopping guide offered by the Independent Map Artists"

Independent Map Sellers

mapartists.org

November 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM

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David Keyes

@dgkeyes.com

Ok, I'm doing this Friday at 11am Pacific on the @rfortherestofus.com YouTube channel. youtube.com/live/mHyjToT...

November 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

Surely this will be less popular than the dog tweet, but I've also done some Cool Work during my Twitter hiatus. Including this story about wildfire smoke that features a scrolling animated smoke map www.axios.com/us-climate-c...

November 19, 2024 at 12:42 AM

Will Chase

@willchase.bsky.social

What have I been up to since my Twitter hiatus? Well for starters, I obtained a miniature polar bear. She is a menace to society and I love her.

The handsome author hugging his more handsome samoyed dog. An evil cat perches in the background

November 18, 2024 at 3:15 AM

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The Pudding

@puddingviz.bsky.social

It's baccckkkk! We're excited to announce the 8th annual Pudding Cup where we pick the best visual and data-driven stories of 2024.

📅 Deadline: Saturday, Nov. 30
📢 Winners announced: the week of Dec. 9
💸 Up to 3 winners each get $1,500

pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

The Pudding Cup

The Pudding's annual picks for the best visual and data-driven stories

pudding.cool

November 8, 2024 at 5:37 PM

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Jen Christiansen

@jenchristiansen.com

I learned lots about mucosal immunity while working on @sutherlandphd.bsky.social’s article “New Nasal Vaccines Offer Better Protection from COVID and Flu—No Needle Required.” Here’s a peek at how the graphics plan developed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-... 🧪🐡 #SciArt