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Danielle Alberti

@daniellealberti.bsky.social
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Data viz/visual storytelling leader | prev. Axios managing editor for data viz, Pew Research web dev. My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps www.daniellealberti.com

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What 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!
"As a Data Scientist at Der Spiegel, I'm always looking for unique ways to tell stories through data. This course was exactly what I was looking for - a perfect mix of getting outdoors with creative data viz." #binocularstobinomials
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last 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.
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Bec 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 💚
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So 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/...
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Danielle Alberti | Danielle Alberti | 32 comments
Yesterday 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...
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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 25/08/2026
Some 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.
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Danielle Alberti | Danielle Alberti | 29 comments
Yesterday 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...
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Second place at the Arlington County Fair! So amazing getting to see people stop and gush over my hard work. 🥰
A quilt showing a heron in a stained glass style with a pink fair ribbon
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It'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)
A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If 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.
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Kester Allen @kesterallen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:
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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 27/07/2026
New 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
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $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.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
a 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
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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 11/06/2026
SAD STATE OF A FAIR
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This 1757 Jean Baptiste Greuze painting looks like it should be the cover of a really phenomenal weird girl lit novel.
Young woman in a simple kitchen sits slumped on a chair, looking tired and pensive. She wears a loose white dress slipping off one shoulder. Nearby are a small cabinet, bowls, and kitchen utensils, with muted tones.
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 26/04/2026
relatedly, the best editors are the ones who both make your prose better and who challenge your worldview and how you express it
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 26/04/2026
i 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
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This 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).
Visual showing
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is a really good Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_fi...
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Twin films - Wikipedia
The 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:
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
My 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.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I'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.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Google'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.
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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Cuts 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.
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Bezos 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.
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Meghan Hoyer @meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Alyssa 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.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Lord help us I love it cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...
A screenshot from NYT cooking of "Mortadella cookies." The cookies are round, pink, and studded with pistachios and macadamia nuts, looking exactly like mortadella.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Google Photos is convinced that Seymour is a red panda.
Screenshot shows Google Photos' tagging of people and pets in an image. First is Mercator, a black and white cat. Second tag is an unnamed red panda's butt and tail.A precious orange prince naps on a green chair, sprawled in a goofy position with his belly exposed.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.
Google maps screenshot showing top review keywords, including drunken noodles, catfish, and object-relational mapping. A review shows a mention of the Lao stew "orm."
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Really 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...
Sepia-toned cover of Beings by Ilana showing a forest canopy over a small road and a car by the side of the road, with a flying saucer hovering overhead. With author text is dull gold over the saucer and the title in the middle of the cover in all caps in white and "A NOVEL" at bottom also in gold.

Below the cover is a quote from the New York Times Book Review:

"Engaging, elegant... A restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of 'truth' versus memory."
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Can 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?
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Bloomsbury 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...
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Were They Abducted by Aliens, or Is Their Memory Just Spotty?
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
BEINGS 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).
photo of me, a white queer with glasses and long hair wearing a white tank top, holding my second novel, BEINGS, which is out today.photo of BEINGS's dedication, which reads:To Mike, who kicked this whole thing off, and to Micha, who unknowingly helped finish it
 Photo of BEINGS's epigraphs which read: 
Safe journey, space fans, wherever you are. - Stephen Hill, host and producer of Hearts of Space
"It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now." - Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren
Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. - Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
The start of BEINGS's acknowledgements (which are five pages long) which reads: Before I get to the thank-yous, I want to acknowledge that any misrepresentations of or factual errors regarding real places, time periods, or people--and any mistakes in general--are entirely my own. There are many, many people to thank (some of whom don't know I exist but whom I feel compelled to acknowledge anyway), so let's get started. Thank you to Mike Cahill, to whom this book is dedicated, for always listening to podcasts while making dinner, for letting me interrupt you...
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
and 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
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.
A quilted wall hanging showing a great blue heron standing in water, in a stained glass style.
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Axios @axios.com · 30/08/2025
Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
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Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
Trump believes the "Deep State," scientific establishment and federal bureaucracy were overdue for a purge.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The 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.
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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Digital collage #dataviz to highlight the rise of forest loss by wildfires 🌳📈📊
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Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The 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.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
When 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.
"respondents were asked to identify Iran on the map" shows a world map covered in yellow dots. Iran is outlined with the annotation "23% correctly identified Iran."
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 03/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Deportation Flights Increased in May, Data Shows
The increasing pace of ICE removal flights suggests deportation numbers could continue to rise.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Absolutely stunning. You can say so much with a quilt.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
FOR 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
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 30/05/2025
So, 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!
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DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Really 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...
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Analysis | 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.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/05/2025
i 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
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I 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
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Axios Visuals @visuals.axios.com · 15/05/2025
Visual 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 👇
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$400 million Air Force One gift would smash presidential records
U.S. presidents have been presented with gifts ranging from books to diamonds, and even animals.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This 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.
Still image from Jurassic Park of Dr. Grant holding a raptor claw threateningly at a wide-eyed child.
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Danielle Alberti @daniellealberti.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com
A bar chart spanning three slides showing the total value of foreign gifts given to U.S. presidents between 2001 and 2023. Barack Obama received the largest total value in gifts, at $2.0m, followed by George W. Bush, $1.1m. The possible gift of a $400m Qatari plane is shown as an incredibly long bar that wraps back and forth across the page. If it were accepted, it would dwarf all the other gifts by far.A continuation of the previous imageA continuation of the previous image
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Emily Guskin @emgusk.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
26% 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...
26% of D.C.-area households who had a government worker or contractor at the beginning of the year have experienced a layoff, firing or being put on leave.
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