Neat, makes me wonder if 3DGS is technically possible

24 hours of train traffic in France, condensed to one minute

dishes

A horizontal timeline chart titled “Viz-ibly, we’ve come a long way: The evolution of maps, graphs and data visualisation,” spanning from 6000 BC to the 2000s. Events are grouped into four rows: Cartography, Statistics & Graphics, Technology, and Other. In Cartography, milestones are marked such as first known map (6200 BC), first world map (550 BC), latitude/longitude (90 AD), cylindrical projection (1569), first modern atlas (1570), choropleth maps (1819, 1826), London Underground map (1933), GIS (1960), and early weather and disease maps. In Statistics & Graphics, markers include early star charts and Earth measurements (240–134 BC), planetary diagrams (950), first data graph (1644), bar and line graphs (1786), pie chart (1801), mortality curves (1828), age pyramid (1874), and later methods like Chernoff faces, treemaps, parallel coordinates, ISOTYPE, Grammar of Graphics, and Gapminder. In Technology, markers include parchment (170 BC), paper (105 AD), movable type (1453), graph paper (1794), lithography (1798), first photograph (1827), first digital computer (1944), Fortran (1957), and S language (1978). In Other, milestones include color system diagrams (1758), periodic table (1869), and fisheye view (1981).

#Day19: Evolution
Tried a chart about the evolution of charts! Centuries of trying to understand the world through data and graphics visualised.
Data: www.datavis.ca/milestones/ by @datavisfriendly.bsky.social
#30DayChartChallenge #dataviz
@infobeautiful.bsky.social @datavizsociety.bsky.social

These look great! I love the little textures!
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Are My Dashboarding Days Numbered? An Early Test of Claude Design Claude Design just launched. Here's what the design-to-code pipeline actually does in the world of visual analytics, business intelligence and dashboarding.

Are my dashboarding days numbered? I've put Claude Design through its paces on visual analytics (@anthropic) - and here's my write up of the experience . thedatavist.substack.com/p/are-my-das... #dataviz #datafam #databs #datasky

The Four Big Bets Reshaping BI When data display commoditizes, things get weird.

I thought this post by Ryan Dolley on the 'Four Big Bets Reshaping BI' is very well written and pretty much captures how AI is creating a decision point for all major business intelligence platforms. Very worth reading. #dataBS #DataSky #datafam superdatablog.substack.com/p/the-four-b...

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? YouTube video by Folding Ideas

Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

Owls in Towels Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.

You obviously have not yet seen this website.

owlsintowels.org

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Infographic titled “THE REPAIR CYCLE OF MODERN BRANDS.” For the top 10 brands in the Restart Project Open Repair Data (2024‑07), each row shows: brand logo/name and number of repairs with fixed share; a donut chart of repair outcomes (Fixed, Repairable, End of life, Unknown); a small density curve of product age at repair (0–25 years) with median (solid gold) and mean (dashed green) lines; and a semicircle gauge labeled “repairability” (0–100) based on fixed share. Footer cites the data source and notes the sample excludes “Unknown” brand values.

The Repair Cycle of Modern Brands 🔧♻️

Using Open Repair Data (Restart Project / Open Repair Alliance, 2024‑07):

outcomes (Fixed/Repairable/End of life/Unknown), age at repair, + a simple repairability score (fixed share).

#30DayChartChallenge #DataScience #DataViz

Scatter plot comparing the length of constitutions (in number of words, x-axis) against the Rule of Law Index for 2025 (y-axis) for countries across all continents. The dots are diamond shapes, sized by word count. The correlation is -0.16, suggesting longer constitutions are very weakly associated with lower rule of law. Countries with shorter constitutions like Denmark, Norway, and Finland score highest on rule of law. India stands out as an outlier: the longest constitution (~150K words) with a mid-range rule of law score of ~0.49. Venezuela has a long constitution and one of the lowest rule of law scores. Source: World Justice Project and Wikipedia. Made fo #30DayChartChallenge 2026, Day 15 prompt: Correlation.

#Day15: Correlation
Do longer constitutions correlate with rules that are more complex to follow? Looks like more words relate with lower rule of law.
Made with @datawrapper.de: www.datawrapper.de/_/u8KX1/?v=10
#30DayChartChallenge #dataviz

#30DayChartChallenge 2026 Day14: Trade.

The arcplot shows sand trade by top 5 importing and top 5 exporting countries.

In 2024 sand trade was around USD 2.5 billion. It is a raw material that is usually taken for granted but there is a shortage of it in quite some countries.

The South Korean national tax agency gives out a "model taxpayer" award every year, often to k-pop stars and actors, and the recipients serve as a PR ambassadors for the agency for the following year.

NYT cooking page has basically no meat on it

"Dumplings With Peas"
"Broccoli Cheddar Beans"

And now the eco-system is what? We have people who are actually good writers and journalists who can’t have stable jobs. Meanwhile the ragebaiter creators rally people against them while taking over the space they were more qualified to be occupy as commenters and tastemakers.

Scatter plot titled "Environmental Stress vs Life Expectancy" on dark background. X-axis shows composite stress score 0-80, y-axis shows life expectancy 50-85 years. 190 dots colored by continent with all country ISO3 codes labeled in white. A loess curve descends from upper-left to lower-right. European countries cluster at top-left with low stress and high life expectancy. African countries cluster at bottom-right with high stress and low life expectancy. Asian countries spread across the middle. USA sits below the trend at stress 3.2 but only 77 years. r = -0.83. Green label marks clean environment end, red label marks polluted end. Subtitle notes environmental stress explains 69% of variation. Data: World Bank 2020.

Day 15 #30DayChartChallenge — Correlation

r = -0.83. No single factor kills — PM2.5, unsafe water, and poor sanitation compound together.

Composite environmental stress score vs life expectancy for 190 countries. Explains ~69% of the variation.
Data: World Bank (2020)
R + ggplot2

#DataViz #RStats

#30DayChartChallenge 2026 Day12: Flowing Data

The latest OECD aid data shows a second year of decline in bilateral aid flows in real terms. Similar contractions have happened in the past usually around other major geopolitical events.

#dataviz #OECD #DAC

Credit to the Block family for selling to the non-profit Banner at a discount. They were offered significantly more by a for-profit chain that would have further gutted the paper. They saw what rhe Banner is doing in Maryland and opted for civic responsibility.

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

📊 LayerChart: Labels, Legends, and Lions, oh my!

Version `2.0.0-next.52` introduces new ArcLabel, CircleLegend, and GeoLegend components, adds Legend/CircleLegend integration with hovered/tooltip value, and adds a `center` label bar placement.

The statisticians spend a lot of time and do a lot of work in trying to keep the numbers relevant in a changing society and I respect them greatly for that but ... What if they're not succeeding? What if things have changed so that they can't succeed without big structural and methodological change?

a very handsome fellow offering food to his mate. Photograph (c) Jonathan Slaght, 03 May 2017, Minneapolis MN

the #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #JKLMNOP, any bird that has these letters to start their 1st or 2nd names. The alt theme is #Urban, birds in an urban environment. So here is a male Merlin on a phone pole in my #Minneapolis neighborhood, May 2017, offering food to his mate. CC @alan678.bsky.social 🦉

The Complete Guide to Python Data Visualization Libraries Python has become the go-to language for data visualization, and for good reason. Its ecosystem offers a tool for every situation, whether…

I've made a blogpost with a comprehensive list of all #Python data viz tools and libraries, for anyone wanting to try them out for the #30daychartchallenge

Check them out!

#DataViz #DataVisualization
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The hidden-away bill charting a course back to Europe No-one wants you to look at the product safety and metrology bill. And there's a really good reason for that.

Readers of Striking 13 have had a year's head start on the govt's plans to use statutory instruments to secure dynamic alignment with Europe. The newsletter acts like an editorial vehicle for me to call people a cunt, but sometimes I accidentally put news in it

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

sharing to boost the signal

Lady farting a rainbow

Love finds you when you're ready ❤️

I have started seeing PMs and BAs using tools that are based on webdesign systems to mockup potential screens for Business Intelligence Dashboards. It will not work. Your BI tool is not made to look like a web app. Your BI tool doesn't have the flexibility of code that CSS and React do.

Child in a space suit costume cheers with arms outstretched amidst a crowd watching the return of the astronauts to Earth

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.”

Photo by Sandy Huffaker

People make fun of government agencies for still being on Flickr but photos produced by the government are copyright-free and I have yet to see a better photo-centric platform for delivering higher resolution photos that anyone can easily download.