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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 28/09/2026

Months ago I talked to Giorgia about her most recent book, and towards the end she shared some thoughts about GenAI that also appear in her article. Here's the recording openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/friends-of... in the newsletter of the Open Visualization Academy

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Friends of OVA: Giorgia Lupi

A conversation about her new book, her career, and the "AI" wave

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Paul Kahn's three favourite of historical information design. Interview: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/walking-th...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Too many great works are locked up in literature written by the specialists who are qualified to write about them. I am not qualified to be an art historian. I am qualified to browse the library and walk around the museum and write about what I see."

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Walking through walls: interview with Paul Kahn

The Curious Cabinet #4.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll be in Barcelona between October 1 and 5. If there’s any data-viz-related event or an awesome secondhand bookshop, let me know!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PolicyViz was one of the first podcasts where @kanarinka.bsky.social and I were able to share our work on DATA FEMINISM, so it felt very full-circle to talk with Jon again as I prepare to release DATA BY DESIGN 🎧 Listen here: zencastr.com/z/RUuQCK0I 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=PdI...

Flyer announcing a new episode of the PolicyViz podcast with Lauren Klein and Jon Schwabish, featuring their headshots

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On Monday, another incredibly informative and educational interview with the legendary Paul Kahn will be released.

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 24/09/2026

I made a pop-up!

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026

In the newsletter: "Visualization as epistemic representation" openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/visualizat... Or: Building bridges between information design and the philosophy of science & scientific representation #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics

A diagram depicting the cycle of epistemic representation. An object called the "vehicle" (a chart, for example) represents another object, called the "target" (for instance, a data set). The reader of the "vehicle" can make inferences about the vehicle itself, and later they can use those inferences to make inferences about the "target"

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're one month away from our official pub date! Join us in Atlanta, New York, Boston, or online for one of our book release events! More at: dataxdesign.io/events

Flyer announcing book release events in Atlanta on 10/20, New York on 10/29, and Boston on 11/12. A historical chart appears in the top half of the image.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The fantastic engineering drawings of the Spanish genius, Leonardo Torres Quevedo. attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/the-engine...

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atlatszo.hu @atlatszo.hu · 21/09/2026

Európai díjat nyert az ötven szerkesztőség összefogásával készült, orvosi visszaélésekről és eltiltott orvosokról szóló cikksorozatunk. 👉 atlatszo.hu/impakt/2026/... #díj #ij4euimpactaward #média #oknyomozás #occrp #sajtódíj

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Mapas Milhaud @mapasmilhaud.com · 20/09/2026

Brasil, la marcha hacia el Oeste Dos siglos de fronteras trazadas sobre un mapa en blanco, y un interior que nunca estuvo vacío. newsletter.mapasmilhaud.com/p/brasil-la-...

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Brasil, la marcha hacia el Oeste

Dos siglos de fronteras trazadas sobre un mapa en blanco, y un interior que nunca estuvo vacío.

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📊 #rstats #dataviz My ggCheysson package was just re-submitted to CRAN 🤞 @infowetrust.com Brings the graphic style of Émile Cheysson's Albums de Statistique Graphique (1880s) to ggplot2: authentic color palettes, hatching patterns, and hand-drawn fonts. 🔗https://friendly.github.io/ggCheysson/

A 5x5 grid of thumbnail crops from Émile Cheysson's original 1880s-1900s statistical maps and diagrams, each labeled with its album year and plate number (e.g. "1880 MAP 7", "1906 MAP 50"), showing pie charts, bar charts, flow maps, and choropleth maps overlaid on maps of France and its regions in muted historical colors. Image from: @infowetrust

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

von Humboldt was so much more: polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, graphic designer. Here's another of my favorites, showing the distribution of plants by elevation. You can zoom in on the original: bit.ly/3sWbWtR

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities we present a long-forgotten graphic method: the Haeckel-inspired organic diagrams created by the Russian-German sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld to visualize social complexity. Read the full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/a-graphic-...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wouldn't say I understand how to read them properly. Hopefully, we'll be a bit wiser on Monday!

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 08/09/2026

This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers the Equal Earth map projection 🌍, AI companion users 🤖, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party dominating TikTok 🇩🇪, and the 2026 summer box office 💰🎬. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

A chart showing how American counties' average number of days with a heat index exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit has changed over time. Cook County experienced an average of 24 days per year in 1995 compared to 38 days in 2025. Meanwhile, Hidalgo County saw an increase from 190 days in 1995 to 212 days in 2025. Published by the New York Times.

A map showing the predicted increase in in-hospital deaths resulting from hot periods between the years 2065 and 2075. The Vienna Central-Southeast area is expected to experience an additional 53.25 in-hospital deaths. Published by Complexity Science Hub.

A chart showcasing the financial entanglement of AI company Nvidia and its customers. Nvidia holds equity stakes in many of these companies and has provided financial backing of $297 billion. Published by The Economist.

This visualization revealing the increasing temperatures experienced during Hajj cycles. The 2025 cycle took place in June, with temperatures exceeding 43°C. Published by Alexander Bogachev.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 07/09/2026

Testing new waters: I'm working on my first philosophy paper. It'll try to begin a dialogue between visualization and the philosophy of scientific (epistemic) representation. Let's see where this crazy idea leads me...

Tentative title: Visualization as Epistemic Representation

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities: 1960s national atlases from four Soviet republics: Armenia, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Four countries, four design directions. Link attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/the-stunni...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The world is changing rapidly after sixteen years of Orbánism. The Central Statistical Office – which I have criticised quite a lot – has asked me to speak about data policy and visualization at its conference.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 01/09/2026

This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers the Nepal-Tibet floods, Shein’s IPO 👚📊, heat-related deaths🌡️⚠️, Trump's endorsements 🇺🇸, and the Hugging Face incident 🤖. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog 👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

A map of South America showing the annual average discharge of rivers and precipitation in the watershed. The Amazon River, which carries 20% of the world's freshwater, flows across northern South America. Other colossal rivers include the Orinoco and the Tocantins. Published by Perrin Remonté.

A chart displaying the primary candidates endorsed by Donald Trump. Trump has endorsed at least 260 primary candidates, of whom only nine have lost their races. Published by the New York Times.

A map showing the changed route taken by Indian LPG tankers due to the Iran War. Since India has turned to the US as a new supply source, the route from India to the US Gulf Coast now takes more than 40 days. Published by Bloomberg.

A chart illustrating the ten rebookings of a Mexican woman that occurred at the Pinellas County Jail. For almost a month, the rebookings kept occurring just before the 72-hour time limit was due to expire, in order to keep the woman in custody. Published by ProPublica.

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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 31/08/2026

May I toot my own horn and say that I've had the honor of being able to contribute to an article as well? attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/rediscover...

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Rediscovering a rarity from India

The Portrait of Population series from the 1970s.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thoughts on “no graphics” archiving policies, lack of standards, large inequalities in the preservation of dataviz and infographic heritage

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A year of digging into our dataviz heritage

Lessons learnt, reflections and results.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities is one year old. Tomorrow there’ll be a special post about the results, successes, experiences and sad realities.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A beautiful map on the locations, numbers and genealogies of Muslim brotherhoods in Algeria from 1884. Full story here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/seeds-leav...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pt. 2. A little bit late, but in Hungary nothing is too late. In Discursive Fragments: Media, Power and Commons Spaces, edited by Gábor Polyák. Budapest: ELTE MMI, 2026, pp. 27–46.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hungarian laissez-faire capitalists, even as late as 2026: "the only media content that is valuable and important is that which the market is willing to finance." Where on earth do they live?

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We’ve finally lived to see this too. I'm invited onto Hungarian Public Radio to talk about the data policies and developments of the former and the new government.

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Most people here know me as a dataviz man. Well, I have a guilty academic pleasure too. In "The Routledge Handbook of East European Politics" edited by Adam Fagan, Petra Guasti and Petr Kopecky. Publishing date: 30 November 2026. Preorder here: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 15/08/2026

Big and beautiful.

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Day 223 of #365DaysOfMaps. August 11th is Mountain Day. I doubt they care they have their own day but it's a nice gesture. World's Ten Highest Mountains (223/365) mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/08/moun...

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Attila Bátorfy @attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities! The once extremely popular, Czech-born statistician and cartographer, Anton Leo Hickmann's graphic influence in Europe. Examples from Russia, Romania, Estonia, Lithuania and Italy. Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/hickmanns-...

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