This Monday, a fantastic guest post is coming to Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities by the great Aman Bhargava @aman.bh

New residents in Hurricane Milton's path Regions along Hurricane Milton's projected path where census data shows substantial increases in population and housing in the last decade

One random exploration we did was try to understand how much new housing and population growth happened around Hurricane Milton diagramchasing.fun/2024/milton

Well, yes, but that is more semantics I feel. Probabilistic or not, the myth-making is what's exhausting, and it seems to have everyone in a hold. I don't think people need to sell Claude with the output. If "Claude made it super fast, it's the end of our craft" is the main point, then *moves away*.

Random rant inspired by seeing more "AI ends dataviz" slop on LinkedIn. Eeks.

This is also why I don't engage in AI doomerism. I am not burying my head in the sand either, but these are the talking points that companies are already selling and I don't need to amplify them. That's what they want.
It is a tool. Use it if you want to for software, but no need to mythologize it.

"Claude made this in 15 mins, Claude did this, Claude did that, we are doomed"

Okay, and? I'll continue to make consciously. Claude or no Claude. I am not an advertising space for a tool. The only point cannot be that "Claude made it" or "Claude can do this". I made it, and I stand behind it.

AI hype is weird. I use Claude too, but I'm not a "fan". It's a tool. Does it not matter what it is being used to make? You can make good things or you can make mediocre things. If you make good things that others value too, then it is by "you". Why purely evangelize a tool and diminish yourself.

It's been a pleasure (and privilege) to see LayerChart grow and grow, getting better with each release. The new docs are wonderful. Indispensable chart tooling for Svelte!

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️

🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

I've been truly inspired by the archival work and writings on historical dataviz by @infowetrust.com, @attilabatorfy.bsky.social and @datavisfriendly.bsky.social. My main motivation here was to see if I can find #dataviz for the Indian context. This is a small start and part of the learning process!

Portraits of Population An archive of 700 hand-drawn charts and graphics from India's census, and why they were made

If you'd like to skip the story and just play with all the graphics and #dataviz, that's okay too! Here's a link directly to the explorer diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

And human-made, artisanal comics for the history section! Loved working with our first external collaborator to produce these because she did a truly wonderful job working with the material. No AI garbage on our blog, ever.

Please read! diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

One thing I believe is not restricting readers to only my view of the data. I uploaded all of these census documents on archive.org so that each graphic can open right into that page so you can continue reading it within its source and context. More open, and not just what *I* want you to see.

I love the Explorer. You can sort the visualization by visual similarity or geographically. Search usually feels very opaque for these things, so I built an extensive index of topics and chart types for easier exploration. Filter away!

As part of population education, the government mandated that middle and high school students learn about reading charts and statistics and understanding terms like dependency ratio, mortality rates and other such concepts. We end up seeing such interesting takes on #dataviz as a result!

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️

🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊

Establish government-wide data visualization standards - Voilà: How do we create data visualization standards for most provincial government departments?

I always think I should make a thread of it, but I can't find the time, so here it is, one of the projects I'm most proud of: we developed the dataviz standards for the Quebec government's website. 📊

Wow this is wonderful, congratulations!! Looking forward to seeing all the cool things you do :D

Ha, very interesting because one of the few times the legend is bigger than the charts! Awesome.

Awesome, I'm going to enjoy digging in!

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Really written with a lot of heart, full of interactive #dataviz AND if that wasn't enough, music by Shri himself (what a flex)!! Stunning piece of work.

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?!

I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote.

But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil!

Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.

Very nicely done! Love the little legend too. And the colors.

Extracting data from weird sources is something I love doing. The basic rule is, if it's being loaded into your browser, we can probably get it! If you still need this, I can try.

This is awesome!

Oh and OBSESSED with the design of the site. Truly 10/10.

Same! They also feel like 'simple' ideas because of their effortless execution.