Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

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A big update on the Open Visualization Academy New instructors, new courses, and what to expect in the next 12-15 months

BIG OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY UPDATE: 10+ more instructors and 10+ more courses to be released on a monthly basis #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization @alyssafowers.bsky.social @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social @petrinkae.bsky.social @rsimmon.bsky.social and many others

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Line chart showing presidential approval rates for disaster aid requests submitted by Democratic- and Republican-led states, covering the period from the Reagan administration to today. The chart is based on a Politico/E&E News analysis of records from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators

23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

are there any more things like this

I count 20 other visuals in the thread that no one has commented on…?

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

("Crinolina"--and the Consequences, by George Cruikshank)

Demon horse mentioned

Oh also there’s an instagram! horsequest_dc

(oh my god, I can't believe I put the long link for horsequest in person. Too late now, but: bit.ly/horse-rsvp also works)

(Group of Seven Horses in the Woods by Hans Baldung Grien)

Happy horsing! (This is Horse's Head Bank by Alf Bruseth. You're welcome!)

Horsequest At Home: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Why is this in a google doc instead of Github Pages/etc?"
It was fast.

"Why are these the worst horses I've ever seen?
I'm the one who picked them

"Can I rate... something else?"
Anything you want! The blank form is bit.ly/rate-horses

Horsequest | Partiful I am on a quest to discover the best and worst horses in the National Gallery of Art. Come judge them with me--in person or online! I will give you a horse-themed clipboard and a rating scale (if you...

Horsequest in person at the National Gallery of Art: partiful.com/e/cke6paOTyR...

Looking for something extremely silly to do this weekend? Consider Horsequest!

IF YOU ARE IN DC: come join me at the National Gallery of Art tomorrow (the 21st) and rate horses in person.

IF YOU ARE ELSEWHERE: join Horsequest At Home and rate horses in art online.

Links in thread!

How Do US Men and Women Spend Their Time? | Pew Research Center Explore how Americans spend their time by gender and across age groups.

I can never get enough awesome graphics on the Census Bureau's American Time Use Survey - Pew just released this comparing how men and women spend their time on 12 different activities www.pewresearch.org/feature/how-...

WOW. This one is new to me—thank you so much for sharing

Yeah, it’s a great example of how much power designers have over a narrative.

I’m actually working on a video course right now on this subject—would it be ok with you if I showed your remake on the recording? (Will be available for free on the open visualization academy)

Some other holidays on March 8! (At least in 2025, the year when the story was published. Some holidays change dates every year, like International Fanny Pack Day, which is on the second Saturday in March.)

A line chart showing 5 years of average monthly Google search traffic for International Women's Day and International Men's Day. International Women's Day peaks in March (the month of the holiday), but International Men's Day is slightly higher in March than in November, when it actually takes place.

Searches for International Women's Day peak in March. Searches for International Men's Day ALSO peak in March... even though Men's Day is in November.

(From this story on non-religious holidays: www.washingtonpost.com/business/int... You can also see for yourself on Google Trends!)

Oh, I see--thank you! The viewer starts with all of the Greek pages, so I didn't realize the facing pages were available. I see them now.

I share these not because I think they are the "best" in any of the categories I name above, but to show that I'm part of the community of people who struggle and try our imperfect best to make loss and suffering feel real through the screen/the page.

Wow--I've never seen this before. Do you happen to know of any translations of the labels in the visuals? I can kind of get the gist of it, but want to make sure I'm interpreting these correctly.

Friends, family, acquaintances: What would have happened to them if Gaza was home? The numbers coming out of Gaza can be hard to comprehend. So let’s apply it to a smaller scale.

and If Gaza Was Home, an attempt at showing the scale of death, displacement, and hunger in Gaza by projecting them onto an American's social network: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Cut short Remembering one person for each week of the pandemic: what brought them joy and what they wanted to do next. And how that was cut short.

FWIW, these are my two best attempts at the Post, each imperfect in their own way.

Cut Short, about 1 million covid deaths in the US: www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

Professional hazard, I think.

Yes, it is difficult. I’m working on a recorded course about the subject and trying to get my thoughts together, in part by looking at loads and loads of examples

Iraq's Bloody Toll is the chart that inspired me to try and find a career in data viz. Basically printed on my brain.