Once again, the New York Times gives the dataviz community an opportunity to reflect on its purpose.

Can everything be quantified and turned into a chart?

Most important: what are the consequences of a chart?

If words matter, charts matter too.

ALT: A birthday card generated by Claude AI from the prompt: "Can you make a birthday card or an image of a birthday cake for R software? R 1.0.0 was first released on February 29, 2000, so this is the 24th birthday. If you can use the R logo." At the bottom is R code to calculate the birthday. Some hex stickers representing R package are on the sides.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊

🎂Happy #Rstats birthday!
R 1.0.0 was first released on February 29, 2000.
Does that make it 24 or just 6 leap-years old?

📊 Meet our panel of 80+ judges for the 2024 #IIBAwards! Our judges represent #dataviz experts from different domains, countries, and languages. Meet the judges: https://buff.ly/4b2u3Al

For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess Replicating the abilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fleet of weather satellites would take time and a lot of money—and expose private companies to a large amount of…

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

"If that data becomes unavailable or is seen as untrustworthy, it could have far-reaching consequences across politics, business, health and beyond."

We all lose if interference with all of this critical information continues. As a data journalist, it is a terrifying prospect.

How Many Federal Worker Resignations Would Be a Lot? Sixty-five thousand have submitted resignations as part of Elon Musk’s “fork in the road” offer. But 150,000 voluntarily leave every year anyway.

For perspective, about 150,000 federal workers voluntarily leave the government every year. Another 50,000 to 60,000 are fired for disciplinary or performance reasons, or because their appointments or funds expired. Around 3,400 die each year while employed. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

We're all really going to need to work together. We'll be able to do a lot more if we share and collaborate.

Come to New Mexico and work with me sometimes!

NMPBS is looking for a host of New Mexico In Focus (the state's weekly news show). Host of NMIF will participate at all levels in producing at least one news and public affairs program #journalismjobs

www.journalismjobs.com/1688783-host...

Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women A document prepared by federal investigators bolsters claims by women who say they were hired for sex by Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, who denies wrongdoin...

this article contains one hell of a chart www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/u...

Just put the Gaetz report on Github you cowards

How California keeps transgender student athletes on the court as bans unfold across the country California is increasingly tangled in the nationwide fight over transgender college athletes competing on teams of their gender identity.

New illustration for @calmatters.org: How California keeps transgender student athletes on the court as bans unfold across the country calmatters.org/education/20...

Welp, here goes nothing. Goodbye X! Hello whatever this is

Hola- Is this screenshot from a live spreadsheet you are updating? Is it something you would be willing to give access to? I am a journalist at Axios reporting on this story.