Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

hey that's my high school! the ol alma matter lookin great

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

DIY Methods 2024

DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Am I accidentally building a Color OS? :D

Different needs require different stats, so I decided to let users rearrange, show, or hide color stats however they want.

a computer cannot have nemeses

therefore

a computer must not be trusted with scholarly sensemaking

HCI summer research opportunity 📣 My group has two openings for research assistants this summer, both in scientific tools for thought. Applicants are welcome at any level. Please help me share the news! andrewhead.info/positions/20...

Don't Get Distracted I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.

“But don’t get distracted by all this; the software was intended to kill people.” — @calebhearth.com

I’m looking for participants for a paid user study on a prototype system for tabular programming (programming with tables / data frames).
2 hours • $50 Visa prepaid card
Hoping to finish sessions by March 13.
Details + sign up in 🧵
Reposts appreciated! 🙏

tired: et al.
wired: and friends
hired: et am(icis)

you're the man now dog!

Post old memes to confuse young people

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

@ianarawjo.bsky.social and team, this looks amazing. What a cool idea and beautiful paper.

U.S. and global steel production over the past decade. The highlighted year-over-year increase in U.S. output is real but small, and looks very different when shown in context versus a tightly cropped comparison.

another look at this generational chart crime

Game Maker's Toolkit • Home @gamemakerstk Take me down to the Parallax City where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly 6:20 AM • 2016-06-12

CS ArXiv recently banned “review and position” papers, but what are those? Do they include more generated content? Who is most affected by this change? @yanai.bsky.social and I dug into the data to find out!

Nearly 50% of Computers & Society papers might be censored, vs 3% of Computer Vision ‼️

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Screenshot of a Settings page in iOS with the Reduce Transparency toggle on

To turn off that awful new “Liquid Glass” feature in the latest iOS update:

Settings-> Accessibility-> Display & Text Size ->
Reduce Transparency

predatory master's programs on linkedin inviting me, a phd haver, to apply is deeply funny to me

Photo of students and staff from our first Diverse CDT cohort working through a group data visualization exercise together around a table in our dedicated visualization lab.

Photo of three students from our first cohort of Diverse-CDT PhD students reading and discussing visual thinking in our dedicated visualization workspace.

Sketch of a 'skills map' design co-created by Diverse-CDT PhD students during their first 'immersion week' at the start of their PhD journey. Sketch courtesy of Ana Marques, one of the students. It comprise a series of coloured dots, each representing a skill held by one or more of the students. Dots are clustered by skill type with some labelled for context. Dots are connected with lines in a tree-like structure with 'Diverse CDT' at the centre emphasising relationship between skills and skill types.

A photo of our first cohort of Diverse CDT PhD students who embarked on their PhD journey together in October 2025. Students are located in our dedicated Visualization learning space, posing for the camera with arms folded.

Interested in a fully-funded #datavis PhD with training?

Applications for our 2nd cohort of PhD students at Diverse-CDT open! We're keen to diversify the sector, encouraging anyone with enthusiasm for using 📊 to make change, even if you've not considered PhD study before:

diverse-cdt.ac.uk

I told you zines were coming back

Honeybee: A Programming Tool for Analyzing Data from Biology Experiments YouTube video by Sarah Chasins

Writing programs to analyze modern biological data is hard! Take a look at how we’re making it easier: youtu.be/W7N9cU6KcGE. And try it out yourself at honeybee-lang.org!

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Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)

Fish have committed credit card fraud

Henry Moseley's graph of atomic number of chemical elements vs wavelength of xray diffraction. The fact that these were all linear demonstrated that atomic number rather than atomic weight was the key variable determining chemical properties.

Photo of Henry Mosely, seated, reading a book.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
🎂Nov 23, 1887 Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley born in Weymouth, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

1913: Discovery of the concept of atomic number, based largely on graphical analysis. Even predicted new elements!
Nobel prize worthy, except he died in WWI

3 friends visited every "L" stop in 9 hours in an effort to set a Guinness World Record.

The trio wore Chicago flags as capes and fought snowfall Monday to reach their ambitious goal. blockclubchi.co/3Lvnm15

been thinking a lot about this; particularly how the amish famously don't use cars, but have as of late been using electric bikes