Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026What do data professionals from the New York Times, Washington Post, Spiegel and Bloomberg have in common? They've taken my course on birding and data visualization! 1132
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Last time I was laid off from journalism, I was barraged with "learn to code" trolls (I was literally a Web developer at the time). Oh how times have changed. 170
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiBec Falconer @becfalconer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026@daniellealberti.bsky.social is so talented and so lovely. She and the #DataViz team she’s led for years have produced the most amazing work 💚 041
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026So I know I mostly use this space to post about birds and quilting, but I'm also a data viz professional. Well, I was until yesterday. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...linkedin.comDanielle Alberti | Danielle Alberti | 32 commentsYesterday I learned that Axios was eliminating the data visualization team I’ve built and led for nearly seven years. So, for the first time in a long time, I’m looking for what's next. I’m so proud... 42811
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 25/08/2026Some sad news: Axios has eliminated their #dataviz team, which means I have a few former colleagues who are going to be looking for work. @daniellealberti.bsky.social was one of the best managers I’ve ever had and her eye for hiring the right people to round out a team is second to none.linkedin.comDanielle Alberti | Danielle Alberti | 29 commentsYesterday I learned that Axios was eliminating the data visualization team I’ve built and led for nearly seven years. So, for the first time in a long time, I’m looking for what's next. I’m so proud... 0116
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Second place at the Arlington County Fair! So amazing getting to see people stop and gush over my hard work. 🥰 2224216
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It's hard to pick favorites with my quilts, but I'm afraid this one might take first place. It was very much a skill-building project, from working with the gradient fabric to my first time hand-quilting and hand-binding. And obvi jackalopes are badass. (Original pattern via Amelia at Summer Sleet) 4202
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026If you exist at the intersection of birding, data viz, and fiber arts, please hit me up. There are dozens of us and i want to follow every one. 11186
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiKester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown: 23771244
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 27/07/2026New story from @pudding.cool is out, featuring some unique #dataviz forms I immediately added to my inspo bookmarks. The sankey + vocab list combo was especially good 2102
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207423773
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/06/2026a worker on the scaffolding turns around and a spotlight finds him. it's lin-manuel miranda! he begins to rap about john f kennedy. we've been had 534501559
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This 1757 Jean Baptiste Greuze painting looks like it should be the cover of a really phenomenal weird girl lit novel. 150
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiSteven Rich @datab.ae · 26/04/2026relatedly, the best editors are the ones who both make your prose better and who challenge your worldview and how you express it 071
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiSteven Rich @datab.ae · 26/04/2026i think one of the biggest flaws a lot of writers have, especially opinion writers, is this innate belief that their experience is *the* universal experience and when it manifests itself in a piece it annoys me to no end 192
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This visual, posted to Reddit by Stephen Nass in 2015 and adapted by @cingraham.bsky.social is forever the gold standard, and i just used it to explain this month's Virginia election to my 8-year-old (est. 2017). 0154
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 10/04/2026This is a really good Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_fi...en.wikipedia.orgTwin films - WikipediaThe term "twin films" has also been used for films produced by the same production company with the purpose of telling the same story from two different points of view: 021
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/03/2026My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself. 27758152
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I've been birding for a while now and I still get unreasonably excited about a bird I've seen a hundred times. The common ones don't get any less good. There's probably a thought-leader-y data viz lesson in there somewhere but I'm not going to make it into a metaphor right now. 120
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Google's constantly giving me pop-ups telling me I've used 89% of my storage space, so I need to buy more immediately. I've had this account for over 20 years and it took me that long to get to 89%, so I just don't feel like I'm going to use that last 11% imminently. 040
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJohn Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Cuts at the Washington Post: • Shuttering the Sports desk. • Books section ended. • Metro cut from 40 reporters to 12. Bezos bought the Post for $250 million. He paid $500 million for his yacht.npr.orgBezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. 499
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiMeghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Alyssa is both a serious data journalist with immense technical chops and a super-talented visualization guru, figuring out all sorts of solutions to create the best storytelling approach. Plus she's a great collaborative partner :) Someone needs to hire her ASAP. 03012
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Lord help us I love it cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027... 020
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Google Photos is convinced that Seymour is a red panda. 060
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special. 071
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein... 2439
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Can someone out there who's more influential than me come up with a new word for "subtweeting" that happens outside of Twitter? And then make it a thing? 020
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiBloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 23/09/2025@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...nytimes.comWere They Abducted by Aliens, or Is Their Memory Just Spotty? 082
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiIlana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 23/09/2025BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community). 44910
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you 4402
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/09/2025I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience. 1303
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/09/2025I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend. 111226
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiAxios @axios.com · 30/08/2025Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of governmentaxios.comBonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of governmentTrump believes the "Deep State," scientific establishment and federal bureaucracy were overdue for a purge. 21459160
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours. 030
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiEleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Digital collage #dataviz to highlight the rise of forest loss by wildfires 🌳📈📊 294
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiHannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The hardest part of data journalism isn't writing code, it's everything else that takes a lot of experience & practice to do right — understanding your data's limitations, knowing what or who it leaves out, figuring out how it relates to other information. A bot will never be good at that. 2121
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 21/06/2025When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real. 130
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiThe Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 03/06/2025www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comTrump’s Deportation Flights Increased in May, Data ShowsThe increasing pace of ICE removal flights suggests deportation numbers could continue to rise. 045
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Absolutely stunning. You can say so much with a quilt. 0290
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN 16830162
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiJacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 30/05/2025So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info Enjoy!dogetrack.infoDOGE Track: Tracking The DamageA website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant! 781988812
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Really really great peek into touring theatre and how they're managing DC. Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away?After Trump’s takeover, the Kennedy Center’s next season has fewer performances and two non-union tours -- and producers are divided about whether it will continue to be such a coveted venue. 010
Reposted by Danielle Albertionion person @junlper.beer · 21/05/2025i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit 22984231694
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I don't know that it's especially difficult to conceptualize the use case for surveys that gather data on a) alcohol consumption or b) internet usage among the American public 514031
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiAxios Visuals @visuals.axios.com · 15/05/2025Visual journalist @erindataviz.bsky.social shows just how much a $400m Qatari jet stacks up against other gifts received by modern presidents. See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇axios.com$400 million Air Force One gift would smash presidential recordsU.S. presidents have been presented with gifts ranging from books to diamonds, and even animals. 33818
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 14/05/2025This morning while talking to my husband about our data viz palette, my 7-year-old got all snarky and asked “how could it possibly matter what color you use for charts?!?” About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up. 140
Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com 2223
Reposted by Danielle AlbertiEmily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 09/05/202526% of D.C.-area households with a government worker or contractor has experienced a layoff, firing or leave from that job. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... 722399