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Gregor Aisch

@driven-by-data.net
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Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography #dataviz (he/him)

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Information Plus Conference @infoplusconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Information+ 2027 is coming to Milan! Join us on 7-9 June 2027 at Politecnico di Milano for three days of presentations, talks, workshops and exhibition pieces around information design and data visualization. The website is now live: informationplusconference.com #InformationPlus2027
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Patrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just finished reading "A Deepness in the Sky" only to find out that the author, Vernor Vinge, was also one of the greatest visionaries in the field of AI. Here are some statements from his 1993 (!) paper. So spot on.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 14/08/2026
Information designers have been hacking at recipe designs for ever and it took an engineer to come up with this design 20+ years ago.
Meat lasagna recipe.
It presents as a table with a list of ingredients on the left and then merged celles on the right with instructions as to how to combine ingredients and cook them.
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 14/08/2026
IKEA complexity index uses a simple formula of steps in the assembly multiplied by number of parts: > ikea.greg.technology Get yourself a PAX Corner Wardrobe for $1,755 and the manual split into 16 parts for ten and a half hours of assembly time come free.
List of IKEA items sorted by complexity
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Scott Gable @scottgable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Heute ist auch wieder die #Hitze 🥵 ein Thema. Nicht nur steigen die Temperaturen 🌡️ auf bis zu knapp 40°C, gleichzeitig ist es auch noch enorm schwül bei Taupunkten 💦 um 20°C. Dementsprechend laufen #Warnungen vor starker (hellviolett) oder extremer (dunkelviolett) #Wärmebelastung im ganzen Land.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Die #Feuer in Frankreich gehen weiter: jetzt mussten schon über 250.000 Menschen evakuiert werden. Hier eine Karte der Lage am Sonntagmorgen und mein Foto von der Fahrt nach Bordeaux am Freitagabend. Warum die #Erderhitzung die Brandgefahr eskalieren lässt: scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
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Reporter ohne Grenzen @reporter-ohne-grenzen.de · 17/07/2026
Die US-Regierung hat beschlossen, die Visadauer für internationale Journalist*innen auf 240 Tage zu verkürzen. Das erhöht nicht nur bürokratische Hürden, sondern führt zu extremer Unsicherheit: Das Heimatschutzministerium kann Anträge willkürlich ablehnen.
"Verschärfte Visaregeln: So will Trump internationale Journalist*innen kontrollieren" Zu sehen ist Donald Trump vor einem Flugzeug. Er beantwortet Fragen von Journalist*innen.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 14/07/2026
In April we published a searchable index of the Nazi Party membership files. Now we are following up with a database of personnel files of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS), which were responsible for some of the most horrendous crimes in German history. www.zeit.de/wissenschaft...
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SS-Akten: Durchsuchen Sie die Personalakten von SA und SS nach Ihrer Familie
SA und SS mordeten im Namen der NS-Ideologie. Wir haben Hunderttausende Akten erstmals aufbereitet: Recherchieren Sie in Lebensläufen, Briefen oder Charakterzeugnissen.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 01/07/2026
"98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI" ☝🏻 Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti... Bookmarked.
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Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts
98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI
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Kachelmannwetter @kachelmannwetter.com · 05/07/2026
In Frankreich steht die dritte große #Hitzewelle dieses Jahres an. Schon wieder drohen über mehrere Tage Temperaturen um oder über 40 Grad. Es ist hier ein bisher historischer Sommer. #canicule kachelmannwetter.com/de/modellkar... /LD
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FragDenStaat @fragdenstaat.de · 03/07/2026
Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...
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SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!
Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...
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Arne Semsrott @arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
NEU: Die Bundesregierung plant den schwersten Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Das IFG soll abgeschafft werden. Das ist nicht nur ein Bruch des Koalitionsvertrags, sondern beschädigt Presse- und Informationsfreiheit massiv. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/poli...
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Beschluss des Koalitionsausschusses: SPD und Union planen Abschaffung des IFG
Es ist der schwerste Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik: Der Koalitionsauschuss von SPD, CDU und CSU hat beschlossen, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz de facto abzu...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 02/07/2026
JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
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The Key Ways Trump’s Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy
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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 25/06/2026
All visualizations (except the map) in this project where built with #SveltePlot by @driven-by-data.net. Very nice to work with, offering quite some flexibility in terms of custom marks and responsive adaptation.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.
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dan @danabra.mov · 19/06/2026
"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer
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There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
Like RSS and Google Reader.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 13/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Betters Use Arbitrage to Make Free Money on Kalshi and Polymarket (Gift Article)
How bettors are turning statistical glitches into guaranteed profits.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks
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See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back
Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here: a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth w/ @spun.earth 💚
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A hidden infrastructure
Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.
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Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Here’s a really nice (and sad) story by my colleagues Katherine Chui and Catrin Einhorn. Truly a great multimedia piece to enjoy with sound on tinyurl.com/5dmu42zs gift link 🐳 🎧
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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 30/05/2026
the single biggest criticism svelte has received over the years is 'you can't have multiple components in a file'. so we fixed it! by making them unnecessary. with declaration tags (svelte.dev/docs/svelte/...), snippets/each blocks/etc can have their own state: svelte.dev/playground/a...
a screenshot of https://svelte.dev/playground/aaac159f0f73466bb3859dfed6792cab?version=latest, demonstrating state-in-snippets
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Jonas Schöley @jschoeley.com · 29/04/2026
demoscapes.org is a visual atlas of demographic surfaces hosted at @mpidr.bsky.social. It is also my passion project growing out of my 2016 human mortality database explorer. Did you publish something containing Lexis surfaces? Consider reaching out and having your work featured on the site.
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Marcel Pauly @marcelpauly.de · 14/05/2026
Wer sich in den vergangenen Wochen etwas mit der NSDAP-Mitgliederkartei beschäftigt hat, musste irritiert sein vom Stunt von Correctiv und Katapult. Viel zu spät haben die Medienhäuser begriffen, was sie da am Dienstag rausgehauen haben. Nun mussten sie ihre Veröffentlichungen zurückziehen. 1/12
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 11/05/2026
Hey, I wonder how you're all dealing with agent-generated code! Do you keep a log of prompts? Do you commit after each prompt? For a recent project, I set up this Claude hook for exactly this (log prompt + commit w/ summary message) gist.github.com/gka/ce1d8c5a... Are there any best practices?
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log-and-commit-prompt.sh
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Ilja @fubits.dev · 02/05/2026
omfg - the first link in this week‘s index: fraude.design
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Fraude Design
The AI-free site builder for genius founders
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 27/04/2026
The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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US Data Journalist
New York; Washington DC
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A reminder of where we stand. Source: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Experimental: PickyPalette — a color picker that shows you the weight of each color as you build your palette. See how much space a color claims. Every color fights for its territory in the color space. So you know exactly how dominant or subtle your pick is. WDYT? meodai.github.io/color-palett...
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 23/04/2026
Three weeks ago, we published an interactive story that lets our readers find their relatives in the Nazi Party membership archives. The response has been overwhelming, both in Germany and internationally. The story was covered by outlets such as Le Monde, CBC, Radio-Canada and CNN.
Screenshot of the story. The headline reads "Use Our Tool to Learn about Your Family's Nazi Party History"
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CNN @cnn.com · 17/04/2026
A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched earlier this month. cnn.it/4tZZBiF
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 17/04/2026
Can we please acknowledge that whatever AI #Apple is using for categorizing shopping list items in the Reminders app is the dumbest piece of software that has ever existed? How f$#^& hard can this be?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social
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Jonathan Corum @13pt.com · 13/02/2026
“The Weight of Rain” is back! Video of my 2014 talk disappeared for years, but Visualized kindly pulled a copy from their archives: style.org/visualized/
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The Weight of Rain
My talk at Visualized.
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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Home.
Earthset from the moon.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 02/04/2026
And another big project today: We've analyzed millions of member records from the Nazi-Party NSDAP and made them searchable and browsable. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...
example search results screenshot of the archive exploration tool.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 01/04/2026
If all goes to plan, tomorrow night, a spacecraft with four astronauts will start its mission toward the moon - the first time since 1972. To illustrate the journey, we set out with a simple yet crazy idea: Let’s show this journey to scale. Here's the result: www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...
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Artemis 2: Fliegen Sie mit uns zum Mond
Zum ersten Mal seit 1972 brechen Menschen wieder zum Mond auf. Unsere 3D-Animation zeigt die komplette Strecke der Mission Artemis 2 – und was dabei schiefgehen kann.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 27/03/2026
One of the best articles I read this week! Bravo @polgreen.bsky.social It’s Not Trump. It’s America. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...
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Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I wrote about the price of the illusion of American omnipotence that’s driving this reckless war in Iran, and so much else. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/o...
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Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.
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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 25/03/2026
Line charts seem straightforward, but there's a lot one can do to improve them! For presidential approval ratings, colors, averages, and annotations can make all the difference. 🎨 🪧 📈 Hear from Datawrapper's co-founder and visual journalist @driven-by-data.net: www.datawrapper.de/blog/fix-my-...
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 22/03/2026
A quick update to ziptbl.com: you can now open shared data directly in @datawrapper.de! The video shows the full flow: load data into Ziptable > share the link > create a 📊 in Datawrapper As always: the data stays off any servers until you send it to Datawrapper - it's just compressed in the url
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/03/2026
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
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Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Labels on these scatterplots brought to you by `avoid-overlap` — my library for automatic label placement on charts. Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot. github.com/kevinschaul/...
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Jon Millican @jonmillican.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 13/03/2026
Say hello to the Raster mark in SveltePlot! Starting with v0.12 you can use it to create raster heatmaps from gridded and ungridded data! Again, this wouldn't be possible without @observablehq.com plot 💚. svelteplot.dev/marks/raster
Map of Canada showing weather stations distributed unevenly as dots, colored by maximum temperature measured. Map of Canada showing a temperature heatmap derived from the weather station data using random-work interpolation.
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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 07/03/2026
With Russian, Ukrainian, and now also Iranian airspace closed, only a small passage remains for international flights from Europe to Asia. My colleague @zacys.bsky.social wrote about how some airlines are profiting more from this than others, and I created this map. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
Globe of the Eastern hemisphere showing flight tracks between Frankfurt, Germany, and various destinations in Asia, including Mumbai, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Russia, Ukraine and Iran are highlighted.
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