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Arnold Platon

@arnoldplaton.bsky.social
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Cartography and data-viz enthusiast. “Hobby-etymologist”. 🇪🇺 Europhile of multiple identities 🇷🇴/🇭🇺 |✸☽︎|. Immigrant 🇫🇷. Was an architect once.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Plaid Cymru is on the cusp of power. So how would Rhun ap Iorwerth govern? www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 20/02/2026
Lots of chatter on diversification away from the US. Equity flows data seem to back it up. Important story from @emilydherbert.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8017...
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Investors pour record sums into European stocks
Inflows on track for all-time high in February as global fund managers seek alternatives to expensive US tech shares
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 16/02/2026
If left unchecked, we are racing towards a world where searching for "struggling to breastfeed" makes baby formula more expensive for you in your local supermarket (that's one dystopian example anyway)
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Toured the Highlands (& Orkney) this summer and can honestly say I'm still enthralled by the beauty of it all, especially the Flow Country, and my wife still mentions every other week how she's yearning to return 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Great. Now where am I gonna get my dose of anxiety from? Anyway long time no see folks 👋
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 16/02/2026
Thought I’d start posting from time to time some of the most famous Polish paintings, so that my non-Polish followers can learn a thing or two about our culture. This one by Jan Matejko is called “Jestermaxxing”, and it portrays a guy who, tragically, jestermaxxed
Matejko’s “Stańczyk”. From Wikipedia: “Stańczyk is shown sitting alone in a dark room, while a ball, hosted by the royal family, is in full swing in the neighbouring hall. His appearance is unlike that one would expect in a jester – gloomy, deep in thought. His seriousness is reinforced by his accessories: his marotte lies discarded on the floor, whereas a holy medallion of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa can be seen on his torso. The wrinkled carpet at Stańczyk's feet could have been formed by his collapsing heavily into the chair upon reading the letter, or through a nervous shifting of the feet thereafter. On the table lies a letter likely announcing that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has lost Smolensk (now in Russia) to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, causing Stańczyk's sorrow and reflection on his fatherland's fate”
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
EU Commission President's anual "State of the European Union" speech means an update to my dataviz analysing the languages used. To the chagrin of some, it was again a predominantly English address, even more so than 2 years ago. German and French got <4 min. each. #soteu2025 #SOTEU 🇪🇺
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 20/06/2025
People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 11/06/2025
A complex family tree of noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters and slaveowners. From the NYT Magazine: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I know most of my followers will be familiar with the story of Giovanni Falcone but for those who did not follow me in the other place and don't know it, I have transferred my thread from there over here. Warning, it is a very long thread (200+ posts) but worth the effort to read.
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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 16/05/2025
Reminds me of "The Lost Literature of Rome" by the Isotype Institute for CICERO AND THE ROMAN REPUBLIC (1948)
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Of course this will affect Europe, though probably not in the same way as in 2008. But for 40 years Europeans have been told by so many policymakers in the US and UK that they should emulate an American model that is now heading to self-destruction. A lesson there for future EU policy too.
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Maximilian Hess @maxhess.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
With @arnoldplaton.bsky.social beautiful map!
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cartography ladies and gents, check out this watch I was gifted recently 😎
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A fun stat from me in this week's Economist. Since the election, right-wing Britons have been turning to e-petitions: www.economist.com/britain/2025... When you're out of power, slacktivism is cathartic!
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Hey @arnoldplaton.bsky.social , a Romanian who writes in Spanish and Catalan has won an important literary prize. And her day job is teaching English in a small town school. Writers who choose a language not their own are interesting almost by definition
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Jakob Bauer @jakobbauer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Ich habe meinen ersten Text für das Datenressort @zeit.de geschrieben und es geht (unter anderem) um das Heilige Römische Reich. Alles daran finde ich fantastisch 👉👈 www.zeit.de/politik/2024...
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Phantomgrenzen: Wo die alten deutschen Grenzen sichtbar werden
Preußen und das deutsche Kaiserreich beeinflussen noch immer, wie Menschen heute in der EU wählen. Absurd, oder? Wir zeigen erstmals fünf Phantomgrenzen Europas.
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Tamara Flemisch @atschatscha.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Dass das Heilige Römische Reich uns politisch noch immer beeinflusst, hätte ich nicht gedacht – bis ich mich mit Phantomgrenzen beschäftigen durfte. Wir haben uns angeschaut, welche alten Grenzen bis heute sichtbar sind www.zeit.de/politik/2024...
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Phantomgrenzen: Wo die alten deutschen Grenzen sichtbar werden
Preußen und das deutsche Kaiserreich beeinflussen noch immer, wie Menschen heute in der EU wählen. Absurd, oder? Wir zeigen erstmals fünf Phantomgrenzen Europas.
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Dataviz in my local paper. 🙃 Front page
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Interesting Capital City vs. Other Cities and Towns split in the Romanian diaspora vote...
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For the fun of it, since Ursula von der Leyen is getting confirmed today: A history of the political affiliation of the European Commissioners 🇪🇺
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hungarian noun cases with examples
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Nations have always been immensely diverse collections of people who don't agree with each other on tons of things. But despite those differences, the nation existed in their minds, an entity in whose existence they believed in part because media enabled them to see it.
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In preparation for the Romanian presidential (round 1) and parliamentary elections this Sunday, Hotnews has prepared some election maps/analysis of 2014 to 2019 results. Among them this arrow map. alegeri.hotnews.ro/cum-s-a-schi...
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 21/11/2024
We created a new dashboard for @zeit.de showing the current state of election polls in Germany ahead of the upcoming election in February. Also shows probabilities for govt. coalitions based on the polls. The full article version also features my favorite sparklines. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Screenshot of zeit.de showing an election polls dashboard (in German)screenshot of the full article showing the election polls since 2021 in a big chart and the polls of the past 3 months as tiny sparklines below
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 06/09/2024
With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊 — What's your claim to fame? ✨ — How might we know you already? What have you done that we might have seen or read before? What would help us remember how we came across you? Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡
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Cédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🌍 #30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Conflict Today’s map visualizes the intensity of conflict in Ukraine, where more than 2,240 events were reported in just the first 15 days of November 2024. Code: shorturl.at/wLIBR #maps #GIS #rstats
A map of conflict events in Ukraine from November 1 to 15, 2024, based on ACLED data. The map uses points to illustrate over 2,240 events across the country during this short period. The visualization emphasizes areas with the highest concentration of conflict activities.
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Oh I remember when these were making the round on the bird app. @awoodruff.bsky.social had a version. Inspired me to make a radial one, to "bring the 🇪🇺 EU closer to Bruxelles". Literally 😂 arnoldplaton.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/h...
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another great tool by @zeit.de, this time for polls on the German elections. For now, it confirms that the best chances for a majority are with the CDU/CSU + SPD option, but much I expect polls still to move significantly.
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Since Commission President von der Leyen has now joined this place, here is a visualisation I've been making for a few years now on the languages she and her predecessors used in the annual State of European Union address in the plenary chamber of the 🇪🇺 Parliament I suspect no such speech this year
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024
Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Very interesting research on the effects and public support for farmers' protest, inter alia showing how much more goodwill farmers tend to get from the public than climate activists:
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I really love the coat of arms of Nuuk, which features a silhouette of Mt. Sermitsiaq 🏔️ Want to visit ever since I saw the stunning images of the city's environs in the episode dedicated to Nuuk, in the Netflix documentary series "Inside the World's Toughest Prisons" (s5e3)
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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The EU only with letters. 🅰️🅱️©️ 🇪🇺 #30DayMapChallenge Day 19 Typography #rstats #maps
A map of the EU 27 which is made of the letters of the country names. Each country's shape is formed with the country name.
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Multi-scale journey map 🗺️👌
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I really love that the French Wikipedia article on the 🇪🇺 2024 EU elections gives you the majority coalitions that can be formed given the results. (But it annoys me that they use the same colour for EPP and ECR) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l...
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I refuse to join Bluesky — I don’t want to become part of an El Greco chamber
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The 🇺🇸 US election arrow map works so well because of a number factors that congregate that make a similar exercise a lot more complicated in a different electoral context like the 🇪🇺 EU elections (my jazz) : 1. County areas are relatively homogenous & arrange mostly in a grid pattern 2. D/R duopoly
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 13/11/2024
The other day we had an interesting discussion about election cartograms in our team that I think is share-worthy: At ZEIT Online went all-in using just a hexagon cartogram for the US election, and we even dismissed a geographical map as opt-in alternative..
Election cartogram for the US presidential election. I used the grey empty state not to trigger anyone accidentally (too soon, I know)
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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
For what it’s worth: an alternative view on the 2024 U.S. Election Map 🗳️ This map scales states by electoral weight, preserving the U.S. shape for recognition. Voronoi-based shapes within each state show exact elector counts, with an animation transitioning from the traditional map to this cartogram
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Arnold Platon @arnoldplaton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What if the President of the European Commission was voted in via Electoral Colleges 🗳️ My simulation of what the last 3 🇪🇺 European Elections would have looked like if the EU used an winner takes it all system à la USA Small 🧵
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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 10/03/2024
Lovely dot maps of the 2019 European election results which take population density into account (Spain so empty) from @arnoldplaton.bsky.social, showing the leading Group resp only areas where a leading Group got 50%+ of the vote twitter.com/Arnold_Plato...
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