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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're ever like, man which 40 new #RStats packages should I take a look at this month, may I introduce.... the CRAN Top 40 😎

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Data Science Learning Community @dslc.io · 23/09/2026

It's (the day after, sorry!) #TidyTuesday y'all! Show us what you made on our Slack at dslc.io! #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #RustLang #DataViz #DataScience #DataAnalytics #data #tidyverse #DataBS

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Connect with fellow data viz community members, catch up on what’s happening at DVS, and see what’s been going on across the wider data viz community at this free, informal networking event on September 29 at 4 PM UTC! Sign up via the DVS Eventbrite page or here: buff.ly/o1TSy8B

Graphic featuring four tea cups with the text “Tea Time: Come yap about Data Viz and connect with others in the community!” Event date and time: September 29, 12 PM ET | 4 PM UTC.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 10/09/2026

I'm getting many new followers because I was added to some lists. Hi everyone! Visit the Open Visualization Academy, my library of free learning resources about information design & visualization: openvisualizationacademy.org And subscribe to our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com

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Open Visualization Academy

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 11/09/2026

📦 {tidytuesdayR} 1.3.3 is updated on CRAN! It has a new check in the submission process + a bug fix for tt_available(), but it's mostly to prep for an upcoming {stbl} release. #RStats dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR/

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Access the Weekly TidyTuesday Project Dataset

TidyTuesday is a project by the Data Science Learning Community in which they post a weekly dataset in a public data repository (<https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday>) for people to analyze...

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Deepali Kank @deepalikank.in · 02/09/2026

#TidyTuesday Week 35: World Castles, Fortresses, and Palaces. I created this little scrollytelling piece using #Quarto and #Closeread. Link: 01a0621a-6bf2-650c-3e30-ddb6ff50a406.share.connect.posit.cloud #RStats #DataVisualization #DataViz #Scrollytelling #Mapping #Cartography

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 31/08/2026

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 35 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring World Castles, Fortresses and Palaces! 📁 tidytues.day/2026/2026-09-01 📰 thecastlemap.com/data #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project. All are welcome to participate! Please remember to share the code used to generate your results!
TidyTuesday is organized by the Data Science Learning Community. Join our Slack for free online help with R and other data-related topics, or to participate in a data-related book club!

How to Participate
Data is posted to social media every Monday morning. Follow the instructions in the new post for how to download the data.
Explore the data, watching out for interesting relationships. We would like to emphasize that you should not draw conclusions about causation in the data.
Create a visualization, a model, a shiny app, or some other piece of data-science-related output, using R or another programming language.
Share your output and the code used to generate it on social media with the #TidyTuesday hashtag.

Photograph of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, seen from across the valley in low evening sunlight. The long sandstone complex runs across the frame on a wooded ridge, its walls and square crenellated towers lit warm orange against a pale blue sky. A tall keep with battlements stands left of centre and the boxy Renaissance facade of the Palace of Charles the Fifth sits to the right, with dark green woodland and cypresses filling the slope below. The Alhambra is ranked seventh of the 5,793 landmarks in this dataset, with articles in 95 Wikipedia language editions.

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Week 33 of #TidyTuesday explored IELTS scores 💬 I created a Shiny widget that ranked the performance of African nations on a bump chart. 🔗 afrikaniz3d.netlify.app/tidy_tuesday... #RStudio #RStats #DataVis #DataViz #DataVisualization #Echarts4R #ShinyApp

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The DVS website has a new look! We’ve redesigned the website to make it easier to find your way through the world of data viz. Read about the full list of updates: buff.ly/5SyLFby

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/08/2026

In early September we'll resume releasing courses through the Open Visualization Academy openvisualizationacademy.org Two of the new releases are already announced: @alyssafowers.bsky.social's amazing 'Visualizing Loss and Tragedy', and my own new elementary tutorial, 'Tidy Data, Tidy Infographics'.

Screenshots of the two upcoming courses announced in my post. They show the titles, author names, and two abstract illustrations based on their content

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#TidyTuesday this week explored nearby galaxies 💫 I chose to create an interactive BPT diagram with lots of annotations/tooltips that would be helpful to novices in the subject ((like me!)). 🔗 afrikaniz3d.netlify.app/tidy_tuesday... #RStudio #RStats #DataVis #DataViz #DataVisualization #Echarts4R

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The slidecrafting workshop earlier this week was a success! Happy to see so many community members joining, learning and sharing! while we wait for the recording to come online you can look at all the material as we wait emilhvitfeldt.github.io/workshop-sli... #quarto #slidecrafting

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Slidecrafting Workshop

Making beautiful slides with reveal.js and Quarto

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Another reminder that I'll be doing a 2 hour free online workshop about all things slidecrafting on August 12, 9:00 AM PDT! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting

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Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday explored Basotho wool. It's the lifeblood and pride of many of Lesotho's people 🐑 The shift from India to China was an interesting one. #Dataviz #Datavis #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto #ggplot2 #Inkscape #GIMP Repo 🔗 github.com/afrikaniz3d-...

A stacked waffle chart titled "Decoupling, Regional Realignment, Secondary Buyer Re-entry, and Emerging Markets" analyzes Lesotho’s wool trade from 2010 to 2024. Each stacked spool icon represents $500,000 USD, organized into 5-column wide annual towers. Color shades reflect yearly trade volume relative to each nation's historical range (Low, Mid, Peak).

South Africa (blue) dominates early trade alongside India (terracotta). Following the 2018 Agricultural Marketing Regulations and COVID-19 shocks, traditional South African pipelines severed as China (green) rapidly expanded to share market dominance through 2024. Annotations highlight the 2018 regulatory shift away from South African brokerage BKB toward direct Chinese licensing, as well as the 2023 re-entry of India and the inaugural appearance of Uruguay (charcoal) at the $500K threshold.

A legend defines spool tiers across the four nations, and a bottom caption details the fourteen-year structural shift in global Basotho wool demand.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I have written up a little chapter on how to use auto-animate in #quarto revealjs slides, i find that they can give you these neat highlights that help you get a persistent theme and message in your slides. There is also a AI Agent skill in the repo to help you slidecrafting-book.com/auto-animate

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

#TidyTuesday last week looked at many penguins, where I got to learn about a possible royal scandal.. #Dataviz #Datavis #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto #ggplot2 #Inkscape 🔗 github.com/afrikaniz3d-...

An infographic titled "The Deep-Diving Emperor and King vs. the Royal Commoner of the Mid-Waters" over a scatter plot with an ocean-blue gradient background that darkens at the bottom. The plot maps various penguin species using hand-drawn illustrations instead of standard points.

The vertical axis shows inverted wing length from 60 to 180mm, representing ocean depth. The horizontal axis tracks the Hand-Wing Index (HWI) from 3.5 to 8.0.

Most penguin species, including the highlighted lighter-purple-outlined Royal Penguin, cluster in the lighter, shallow mid-waters between 90 and 120mm wing length. On the far left, in the deepest dark blue zone at the bottom, the King and Emperor penguins dive steeply, highlighted with darker purple outlines to emphasize their role as the deep-diving sovereigns of the abyss. The text caption describes how wing anatomy dictates their diving capabilities and lifestyles.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

WE’RE HIRING! Editorial all-rounder / Production Lead for @beautifulnews.bsky.social. Freelance, part-time (~3 days/wk), fully remote. Work directly with author David McCandless on optimistic data graphics & stories. Apps close Mon 20 July. Apply geni.us/BNEWS-job-Ju...

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I have been tinkering with how to quickly modify a Quarto theme, and I think I have a decently fast solution. Introducing the Quarto Theme Tweaker Run the `Open Theme Tweaker` command in an active qmd file. Modify the settings to your liking. Save the results. github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 29/06/2026

We need datasets! Submit your #RStats datasets via dslc-io.github.io/tidytuesdayR... #DataBS #TidyTuesday

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Curating a Dataset

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talk show ghost @talkshowghost.com · 23/06/2026

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

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ReBoot - S01E01 - The Tearing (HD)

YouTube video by Mainframe Studios

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you create slides in #Quarto, or WANT to, you should really attend @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's upcoming 2-hour slidecrafting workshop. I don't think anyone in the data world has created more reavealjs-friendly slide stuff lately than Emil. ABSOLUTELY DO IT. #rstats #databs pos.it/slide-wrkshp

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Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt

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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 12/06/2026

the Bluesky design research team wants to talk with people who are interested in building communities. if that's you, submit this form! your voice will help shape what we build. docs.google.com/forms/d/1ej6...

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Bluesky Communities Research 2026

Bluesky is conducting research to better understand how these groups form and grow on the platform, as well as what they need to thrive. We’re looking for active users to participate in a 45-minute 1:...

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Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta @obumbratta.com · 07/01/2026

New Year, New Colour Tool for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer obumbratta.com/colour

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Posit @posit.co · 09/06/2026

Mike Bostock's first data viz library ran on three 1x1 pixel GIFs and raw HTML tables. It kind of made a bar chart. He went on to build D3. Listen now on Spotify (open.spotify.com/episode/01BJ...) and Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...).

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#TidyTuesday last week explored European parental leave policies. A reduced % on paid leave for more time off with a growing family has its benefits. #Dataviz #Datavis #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto #Echarts4r 🔗https://github.com/afrikaniz3d-za/Tidy-Tuesday-Participation/tree/main/tt_2026_22

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Rajo @rajodm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A look at maternity leave across 21 European countries in 2024 for #TidyTuesday week 22 Data: European Parenting Leave Policies Code: github.com/rajodm/TidyT... #dataviz #rstats #ggplot2

Horizontal bar chart titled "European Maternity Leave in 2024: Who Gives the Most Time?" showing mandatory (solid dark green) and voluntary (striped) maternity leave duration in weeks, before and after birth for 21 European countries. Italy (22 weeks, 9 before birth and 13 after birth) and Poland (20 weeks postpartum) lead in mandatory leave. Ireland offers the longest total postpartum leave at up to 40 weeks when voluntary leave is included. Lithuania and Estonia have no mandatory leave.

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#TidyTuesday this week explored sustainable energy, and I chose to look into the infrequently-discussed Marine Energy. #DataViz #Datavis #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto #GGplot2 🔗 github.com/afrikaniz3d-... Open to freelance data viz/reporting work

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Since this chart type is a little bit unusual, here's a little scrollytelling explainer of how to read this chart! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/scrollytelli... #DataViz #QuartoPub #RStats

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Sustainable energy for all – Scrollytelling

An explainer of how to interpret arc charts.

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#TidyTuesday last week ORCID and ROR metadata from Crossref. I chose to create an evaluation (OSMI) to look at Sub-Saharan Africa members. #Dataviz #Datavis #sf #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto #ggplot2 #Inkscape #Kdenlive 🔗 github.com/afrikaniz3d-...

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 18/05/2026

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 20 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring State of Crossref metadata by member country! 📂 tidytues.day/2026/2026-05-19 🗞️ doi.org/10.64000/7s70g-drz77 #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

An infographic depicting the continuous lifecycle of research outputs. The center consists of various entities including books, blogs, conference materials, articles, organizations, preprints, videos, images, theses, software, data, protocols, contributors, and other objects. Surrounding this core are five interconnected stages: Fund (fund, provide facilities, give award, fund again); Create (propose, generate data, author, revise, and write/produce); Post (edit, publish, deposit, check similarity, share, link, maintain metadata, and archive); Respond (comment, cite, mention, review, correct, and retract); and Use (verify, reuse, reproduce, translate, and refute).

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Average monthly precipitation of Japan, 1970–2000. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday is Twinned Towns / Sister Cities. This was an opportunity I took to look at South Africa's relationship with it's BRICS and non-BRICS sister cities. #DataViz #Datavis #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto #Leaflet Repo 🔗 github.com/afrikaniz3d-...

An infographic world map showing South Africa's formal sister city ties. South Africa is highlighted in bright red as the hub. BRICS partner countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are shaded in varying tones of orange, while non-BRICS countries like the USA, Mexico, and several European and African nations are shaded in teal.

The visualization features white label boxes with leader lines pointing to country centroids. These boxes list specific sister cities, such as "Chicago, Jacksonville, and San Francisco" for the USA, and "Daqing and Guangzhou" for China. The subtitle explains the uneven balance of ties, specifically noting the informal nature of many cultural connections with India despite its core BRICS status.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📊 #dataviz As a simple rubric for designing effective graphical displays, I like the ACCENT principles: ✨Apprehension ✨Clarity ✨Consistency ✨Efficiency ✨Necessity ✨Truthfulness Are there other simple rubrics you recommend? (Image from: www.datavis.ca/gallery/acce...)

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Isabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Tomorrow's DS Lab is going to be truly ✨magical✨ as we are joined by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, who will be showing the Quarto extensions that he's been building to make your slides more engaging, beautiful, and effective! 📆 Tomorrow, May 5 at 12pm ET Register here! pos.it/dslab

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#TidyTuesday this week explores Italy's industrial production statistics courtesy of Istat 🇮🇹 I plotted three heatmaps, highlighting the impact of the 1943 Allied Invasion on production volume. Open to freelance data viz/reporting work #DataViz #DataVisualization #RStats #Quarto

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 28/04/2026

📊 Free webinar on 12 May Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny RShiny basics for researchers, students, analysts, and other R users interested in interactive dashboarding for research communication. 18:30 Vilnius time (EEST) Registration: forms.gle/f9t9dpYTT3Gc... #RStats #dataviz

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Building Research Dashboards with R and Shiny

Free online webinar Tuesday 12 May 2026, 18:30 CEST (Vilnius) A practical introduction to building research dashboards with R and Shiny for researchers, PhD students, analysts, and other R users inte...

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 21/04/2026

Four small Quarto extensions to sharpen your Reveal.js slides: animated list fragments, step-by-step code annotations, auto-repeating headings, and keyboard-driven tabsets. Each one fixes a single friction point. 🎯 mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2026-0... #Quarto #QuartoPub #SlideCrafting #RevealJS

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Quarto Reveal.js extensions to sharpen your slides – Mickaël CANOUIL

A short tour of small Quarto extensions that make Reveal.js presentations tidier and more interactive. Coordinated list fragments, animated code annotations, cascading headings, and keyboard-friendly ...

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊 Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩 #DataViz #RStats

Screenshot of data visualisation gallery

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#TidyTuesday this week looked at bird sightings at sea. I chose to explore the observers' relationship with the "Navigators", a role according to their Māori roles. 🔗 github.com/afrikaniz3d-... #DataViz #RStats #DataVisualization #ECharts4R #Quarto Open to freelance data viz/reporting work

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines! Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto

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Announcing quarto-timeline

quarto-timeline is a new Quarto extension that helps you make timeline visualizations.

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My submission for #TidyTuesday this week was actually an interactive presentation via #Quarto. The .qmd file, along with all the tables and scripts are now uploaded to my repo: github.com/afrikaniz3d-... #DataViz #Echarts4R

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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

New in the R mapgl package: static maps! I developed mapgl to bring my favorite interactive mapping libraries to R. But - interactive maps are by definition hard to share in non-interactive formats. I'm rolling out a couple new functions I'm already finding useful:

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Ntobeko Sosibo @afrikaniz3d.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

This week's #TidyTuesday looks at ocean temperature readings off the coast of Nova Scotia. Got to learn about the Labrador Current and that the ocean "breathes" 😮 #DataViz #RStats #Echarts4R

A graphic titled “Winter Labrador current inversions contrast with summer surface warming” presents findings from ocean temperature data (2018 - 2025). It includes two charts: a heatmap showing the average temperature difference between surface (2 m) and deeper (40 m) waters across months, where blue indicates warmer deeper water and red indicates cooler surface water; winter months (December - January) show the strongest inversions, while mid-year months trend warmer at the surface. The second chart is a line graph comparing temperature by depth for January and April, intersecting at 3.75 °C and 10 m, illustrating seasonal thermal inversion. Project and author details appear at the bottom.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Pretext Pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement & layout. Fast, accurate & supports all the languages you didn't even know about. Allows rendering to DOM, Canvas, SVG and soon, server-side. github.com/chenglou/pre...

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