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Ashley Kirk @ashleyjkirk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have been to several Holocaust museums, but I have not been able to see another one after visiting Yad Vashem and its monument to the children.

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The Guardian’s Visual & Data Journalism team is expanding! We have three exciting new roles, and we're looking for people who can help us push the boundaries of how we find, report and tell stories. 🧵⬇️

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 01/10/2026

Just come across these interviews on Instagram with movie stars where they’re challenged to guess the films they’ve been in/directed based on the average colours on screen across the duration of the movie. Tom Cruise is very good at it www.instagram.com/reel/Dd848fK...

Tom cruise guessing Mission Impossible’s colours

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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As part of the celebration of the New York Times 175th anniversary, graphics director Archie Tse, wrote a brief story about the sketchbook he used while in Iraq covering the news of Saddam Hussein's hideout. Here [ nyti.ms/3TjBBKF ] is a list of objects that @nytimes.com's journalist can't forget.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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I really wish Voilà: had an opening that fits your profile right now because you're a catch and you're going to do wonders wherever you end up.

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I would also move the Home and Away icons top right, move the colour chart to the left and bring the time delay to the right of the colour chart, to connect the two and also to avoid distributing Home and Away left and right, as if on purpose.

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Ah so the game starts at 8:30 / 7:30, etc. Got it. I saw the legend but there was no definition. Have you considered adding an arrow at the end of the connecting line?

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Here goes: The NY Islanders have 0 points so far and are going to play outside their division in Toronto against the Maple Leafs (also 0 pts), who played recently. The game will be at 8 pm Atlantic time, 7 pm Eastern... That’s as far as I got. No idea what the minutes of the dotted lines mean.

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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now that’s a new one for me and I will understand it, eventually. Fascinating, as always.

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It is not mind-boggling. It is very straightforward.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 30/09/2026

I just discover that @ourworldindata.org has an interesting section about tourism. 📊 Spain is such a tourism country. And only 48M population. 2 tourists for every local! Explore: ourworldindata.org/grapher/inte...

Arrivals of tourists from abroad 1995 to 2024
Number of trips by visitors who arrive from abroad and stay overnight.

In a line chart of selected countries. Spain is on top, followed by United States, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada.

Source: Our World In Data
Data source: UN Tourism

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Bastian Herre @bastianherre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Striking to see the increase in tourism to Albania: In 2007, the country saw about one million visits. In 2024, it was more than ten times that: 11.5 million visits.

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wisevis @wisevis.eu · 30/09/2026

"You are not stuck in traffic, you are the traffic". Well, it depends. If you're on the *bus* you are stuck in traffic. if you're in a *car*, then yes, you are the traffic.

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Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dear people: there are still tickets available for the Information Design Conference. On Oct 30 in Hilversum, Netherlands this conference is surely one you should visit if you are passionate about #datavisualization, #infographics and adjacent subjects. The speakers list is 💯🤩 (link in next post)

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you are already a DVS (free) member, take the next step to paid and help support the important (and beautiful!) work of the Data Visualization Society.

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I suspect they share both of your assessments!

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Only 7.5% of @datavizsociety.bsky.social are paid members. It's USD 99 / year ($250 for patrons who feel like it). Don't take this association for granted, as it is supported by volunteers and depends entirely on member subscriptions and sponsors. new.datavisualizationsociety.org/membership/

Waffle chart of Data Visualization Society members, showing that 1,500 are paid members and 18,408 are free members.

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This week's #TidyTuesday data looks at health metrics in cities across the world 🏥 I created a dot density plot of the population density around hospitals 📊 Thanks to @gabspalomo.bsky.social for curating this week's dataset! #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Four-panel dot density chart comparing the median population living within 1 km of a hospital in 2025 across World Bank income groups. Each dot represents approximately 200 people. Low-income countries have 50,000 people, lower-middle-income countries 53,000, upper-middle-income countries 44,000, and high-income countries 28,000. The chart’s main message is that higher-income countries tend to have lower population density around hospitals.

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For more senior people, it’s harder to justify the opportunity cost of working on this. I guess a sort of mentorship or review system where senior designers provide feedback to volunteers could be an interesting model? Interested?

I agree that some of the charts are not to the highest standard. I attribute it to a mostly volunteer org anizations that does this kind of work outside of work hours and with too little support from the community. I appreciate all the efforts they put in it.

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Ha! Good catch: it looks nothing like the data presented in the associated paragraph.

Respondents indicated what challenges they face when doing data visualization [Figure 18]. The most common challenge was lack of time, selected by 84% of visualizers who responded to this question. Technical limitations of tools (81%), too much effort on non-viz activity (80%), and learning new tools/technologies (79%) were the next most commonly selected responses; technical limitations of the tools was not as big of a challenge in prior years. Across all of the challenges, lack of time (30%), too much effort on non-viz activity (22%), and accessing data (20%) were rated as the most significant challenges, the same top significant challenges as 2023 and 2024.

Figure 18. Top Challenges with Doing Data Visualization (counts)

Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Lots of Phosphor updates over the weekend, including: - Automatic colorblind-safe checks - Parabolic curve adjustments for corrected gradients - Preview your palette on a map, plot, or image - Larger library of preset palettes - A new Legend Lab - Support for #RStats www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 28/09/2026

The talk is now online. It is one of the best on the topic, with speakers at the center of the international practice, famous examples and a very good format that keeps your attention. 📊

youtu.be

At first glance: How visualising climate can change the game

YouTube video by CMCC Channel

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 28/09/2026

The talk is now online. It is one of the best on the topic, with speakers at the center of the international practice, famous examples and a very good format that keeps your attention. 📊

youtu.be

At first glance: How visualising climate can change the game

YouTube video by CMCC Channel

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

Rachel Carson photo credit: Science History Images / Alamy

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My unpopular opinion is that Bluesky culture is too trigger-happy when it comes to blocking and it makes exchanges difficult, and probably self-censored.

Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Early bird registration for IEEE VIS ends today!! The program looks amazing and has lots of relevant content for practitioners too! Sign up for in-person attendance in Boston, Paris, or Tianjin!!! Registration: ieeevis.org/year/2026/in... Follow @ieeevis.org for more details about #ieeevis 📊

ieeevis.org

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Oh I was up too and dancing with my daughter to the first single 💃🎶🕺 She anticipates every release and I bet she'll remember it fondly in a few decades.

It also shows that the fans were up at midnight for the release 🥱🎵

I've done some live-posting of the conference below 👇 something I miss from the good old days of Twitter. Bring back the hashtags!

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This was a really good conference. It was very dense with information, the speakers were informed and ready, the format was lively as speakers presented several short presentations rather than a long one. Well done, Mauro Buonocore and CMCC.

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Asked about AI, Prof Saffron O'Neill said that they published a paper based on a study where they asked AI to create visuals for media and none of it was useful. They were all clichés. The speakers and audience appear quite skeptical of the potential contribution of AI.

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First time I see the original blanket by Ellie Highwood. Presented by Prof. Saffron O'Neill. What a piece of dataviz history. 📊

A quote next to a child in a living room seen from behind wearing a striped knit blanket.
"This is a much-loved gift from our colleague and friend Ellie; and something that is still in daily use years later! It's amazing to think of its story, and how it helped inspire Ed to create the Climate Stripes."
Professor Jen Catto, Climate Scientist, Mathematics, Exeter University

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As an organizer, @annalombardi.bsky.social explains that the purpose of @visualisingclimate.com conference is to bring together scientists, designers and journalists together. The interest has been overwhelming. (I'll be giving one of the talks)

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@annabower.bsky.social designs cover pages and logos based on data, but stripped of their axis and legends.

"We were listed as authors of the paper, not designers because our process changed the content." @tomgab.bsky.social

@tomgab.bsky.social from InfoDesignLab, presenting their work on the concept of overshoot, says that most of the creative process is consultation. People may agree on words, but they all have different mental images.

Open report on a wooden table showing a page of complex figures presenting the overshoot process.

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Bryony Miles @bmdataviz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Welcome to Bluesky! Very nice of you to post example fo your work. I would also advise to quickly fill your bio so that the people you follow can know who you are and decide whether they want to follow back. This happens shortly after you followed them.

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Hello Bluesky.... Big thank you to @chezvoila.com for the Dataviz Community Starter Pack. Here's short video walkthrough of some of our 2025-26 projects

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@annalombardi.bsky.social from @ecmwf.int says that one reason why this chart became popular is that it broke some of the design rules.

Ridge plot of climate data from the 1930s to 2025.
On the right hand side, there are multiple screenshots of the same chart share on social media.

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I missed the visual but Arlene Birt from the IPCC explained that she had the idea (that she calls an artistic project) to add people to charts before making the climate generations version for an IPCC report.

"Need to translate the truth of science into a language our hearts can understand." Massaba Thioye, member of UNFCCC secretariat in presentation at COP29.
Background image is the climate generation chart based on the climate stripes.