really important and cool study, with huge implications (even as just one data point) for both climate and public health advocacy 👇

Fascinating case study of tiny regulatory differences producing small but potentially consequential effects on construction :

In case anyone is interested in modifying this for their own purposes, I just put it up on Github: github.com/evanpeck/bar...

A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.

Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?

So, I visualized it myself!

If you’re buying holiday gifts today, you are demonstrating why Same Day Registration is so important.

This is a good example where the "feel" of data can really vary by a simple chart change - from pie chart to bar graph.

While the 🥧 pie chart looks like 3 roughly-equal groups of people, the "didn't vote" group jumps out in a 📊 bar graph

Same data plotted below: barvpie.netlify.app?numbers=31.5...

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.

Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

“I want people to understand that we’re not just a keeper of old stuff; rather libraries are using technology to innovate on a regular basis, to figure out better, faster, and more computationally ready ways of making [these records] available to researchers.”

Honestly, they buried the lede.

The really cool thing is that the professional will be 110% male in 2510.

Beautiful!!

As a pediatrician in Louisiana, I want to put this in greater context. We have one of the highest rates of poverty in the US. The poorest health outcomes in nearly every indicator. Breaking down our public health infrastructure, instead of investing in and building it up, is shameful and reckless.

I got up close with a Portuguese man-o-war and my god these animals are shockingly beautiful.

The Tree Museum is $1.50, but the #parking is free!

“Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That’s the question that needs to be asked.”

- Police Chief in Madison, WI

I love all god's pizzas and I shan't be baited into an argument about regional pizza styles on our internet on this day in two thousand and twenty four.

I see so many people twisting themselves into illogical knots in attempts to be clever when they could just communicate with earnest clarity.

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Four Christmas trees, each in the style of a different chart, arranged in a two by two grid. Top left is a population pyramid, top right is a network graph, bottom left is a vertical Sankey, and bottom right is a scatter plot

I drew these for the #datafam holiday card exchange, but figured I'd share them for others to use too! Put them on your cards, gift tags, or anywhere that needs a little more #dataviz 📊

Of course they do. Statistical models can work this way too. The algorithms, in this sense, are not the problem. The problems lie in the foolish ways some try to apply them, and a broad lack of interest in actually evaluating whether the predictions they generate are clinically useful.

This is awesome! I love the idea.

Y'all there is a legit taco truck working late nights at North Berkeley BART. it's a miracle.

This is a cartogram depicting the share of land associated with various purposes in the United States. From https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/#xj4y7vzkg

Bluesky wrapped: a 🧵 of my posts that generated the most conversation on this site.

Below is a clever visualization of the distribution of how land is used in the U.S. Cows roam over a lot of land!

But this is not a map - for example, the 100 largest landowning families aren't confined to Florida.

NOVEMBER We did a lot of kick-ass election work, but I think this one was my favorite, because it took something we kind of knew instinctively existed -- our increased polarization -- and made it visually striking in a way I didn't expect.

www.startribune.com/where-minnes...

How to find & create good color palettes - Datawrapper Blog Tools and approaches for finding, coming up with, and extending a color palette.

Our writer @lisacmuth.bsky.social has written tons of good advice on colors in data vis — but you don't need to become a color theory expert just to create your first chart. Today: 17 (!) practical tips for picking out your color palette 🎨

They haven't invented an AI that can do what we do as poorly as we do it.

A table listing various article titles and their corresponding bit.ly links, sorted by publication date from August 2024 to May 2023. The table has four columns: Title, bit.ly link, Published date, and Updated (empty). Topics include 'Per Second', 'WaterWorld', several articles about plastics, 'Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War', among others. Most links are either geni.us or Google Docs spreadsheet URLs. Dates range from most recent (01 Aug 2024) to oldest (24 May 2023)

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated.
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The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425.

42% of Americans would live in a smaller home in a more walkable community.

Yet the reality is that, in most metro areas, those communities are few & far between—and they’re typically too expensive for many people to afford.

Work by @harrystevens.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...