A variety of crows based on real species are on a pastel background. The surroundings are filled with sparkly effects that crows love. The birds are smiling gently or playfully and look happy and joyful.

Happy crows 🐦‍⬛

A data visualization presents a breakdown of pathogens responsible for diarrheal deaths in children under five years old. It features a title at the top, stating "Which pathogens are responsible for diarrheal deaths in children?" Below the title, there is an explanatory note highlighting that an estimated 580,000 children die annually from diarrheal diseases, with the box sizes representing the proportion of deaths attributed to each pathogen. The categories are divided into three groups: Viruses, Bacteria, and Protists. The data source is attributed to Adam Cohen et al. (2022), and the chart is published by Our World in Data.

Ten pathogens are responsible for three-quarters of diarrheal deaths in children

This tutorial will level up your skills and show you how to build animated wind maps from scratch. Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/e_8QaFn6 And if you’re ready to go deeper into the world of spatial data, check out my new book: Mapping Worlds with R: Your Journey from Beginner to Data Cartographer It’s packed with real projects, full code, and clear explanations for every step of the map-making process. Grab the book: https://payhip.com/b/MH9Ot Let’s catch the breeze, beautifully, in R. #rstats #GIS #DataVisualization #ClimateData #ERA5 #gganimate #WindMapping #Geospatial #EnvironmentalScience #OpenData #MilosMakesMaps #MappingWithR

Want to turn raw wind data into a mesmerizing, animated map?
With R, it’s easier than you think.
My new tutorial shows you how, step by step.
Let’s catch the breeze. ⤵️
youtu.be/EmVbVTqwoMU

#GIS #DataViz #gganimate #metR #WindMap #ClimateData #SpatialAnalysis #MilosMakesMaps

Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back.

Farmers Sued Over Deleted Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/c...

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

Land cover change of fruit trees, olive groves, and vineyards in Europe between 1990 and 2018 🍇🍏🫒
Based on data from CORINE
@copernicusland.bsky.social

#dataviz #rstats

Making the Centrifuge The modern centrifuge was first designed for milkfat separation in the dairy industry. Today, it is ubiquitous in research laboratories. To whom do we owe its astonishing versatility?

There's something so fulfilling in learning about the history of a technology that we take for granted today.

I just loved this one.

I hadn't thought about it so it hadn't occurred to me that centrifuges would be so useful across many fields, but now it seems so obvious that they could be.

An essential task that doesn't get recognized (and paid) as it should. Often as complex (or more) as the following tasks.

Satellite image showing two large rivers meeting, both flooding with most of their floodplain inundated

Confluence of the Wabash and Ohio rivers, both floodplains inundated with muddy water. April 16, 2025.

He's fantastic :) Now just to find a place to put him!

Picture showing a groudon in a picture book

where is groudon

We just hit 2k!! Thank you so much everyone that has donated!

But we’re not done yet! As a celebration Slam will be streaming for an extra 2 hours, extending the stream ‘til 2am EST! Come show your support if you can! 💖

Nearly Half of Latin American Frogs and Toads Are at Risk New research from Kelly Zamudio at The University of Texas at Austin and an international team finds climate change threatens hundreds of amphibian species.

cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

The author holds his shelf copy of Deep Oakland's new softcover edition, release date 6 May, preorder now!

The paperback is here!

A calendar showing fatal car crashes in the United States from 1994 to 2017. Each row represents a year and each column represents a day of the year, from January to December. Darker purple squares indicate days with a higher number of fatalities, revealing seasonal patterns and spikes across years.

For this week's #TidyTuesday data about car crashes in the USA, I decided to take the simple approach of plotting every data point.

📊 Jittered scatter plot made with #ggplot2
🧮 Over 1.3 million points drawn
📅 Noticeable reduction after 2008 (ish)

#RStats #DataViz

Nebraska's High Plains Regional Climate Center shuttered amid Trump cuts Instead of featuring regional drought models or precipitation trends, the website for the center tells users that its funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency had lapsed.

The High Plains Regional Climate Center shut down its operations on Thursday as the Trump administration allowed its funding through NOAA to lapse.

The center supported programs like CropWatch and the National Drought Mitigation Center: journalstar.com/news/state-r...

grid of the avatars of 1134 Bluesky accounts with default profile image

Some fake follower networks put in at least some effort to make their mass-produced accounts appear authentic.

Others, like this new Bluesky fake follower network, just create a bunch of accounts with default avatars and call it a day.

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections

That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

A crow's math skills include geometry Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.

4. Here's an NPR story about the study.

Enjoy!

A new color version.
7 million points.
#generativeart #mathart #Mathematics #p5js #math

4 charts showing the historical ranges for the Fire Weather Index in 2024 for 4 parts of Europe. The charts look like fires.

Strong contender in the "Charts that look like their topic" category climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024/g...

Want to know how I made the Arctic sea ice animation? You can now the read the ‘How we made it’ section of our Climate Graphic: Explained newsletter on FT.com

www.ft.com/content/6d26...
#dataviz

I decided to start writing blog posts about data science a few years ago, and it's one of the best decisions I've made to improve how I write and communicate.

I'd highly recommend it, and this a really nice blog post from @paulrjohnson.net which has some truly great advice in it!

Screenshot of first slide of "Practical Techniques for Polished Visuals with Plotnine" presentation

The recording of my PyData Global talk about Plotnine in #Python is available! 🐍

Give it a watch if you're interested in:

📊 customising plotnine plots
📈 combining with matplotlib
✍️ adding custom annotations

(or if you're an #RStats user wondering about Plotnine vs #ggplot2)

#DataViz #Plotnine

A blue and tan male Eastern Bluebird is poised on the side of a tree.

Eastern Bluebird

Sometimes you have to pause in order to appreciate...

Legal research is hard, kids.

New Python library aimed at helping data journalists analyze aircraft flight data from Flightradar24, by @stiles.bsky.social. github.com/stiles/pyfr24

#OnThisDay April 14, 1996, Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers, when “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired on Fox. @thatbilloakley.com #TheSimpsons #SteamedHams

Digital Redlining and Its Enduring Impact on Communities A relic of historic redlining that restricted marginalized peoples from buying homes still persists in internet access today.

Digital Redlining.