Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I propose that, in anticipation of legislation forbidding impersonation of humans, AI chat bots shall use the following singular, first person pronouns: *AI*: nominative *meh*: accusative *mai*: dependent *aine*: independent genitive *aiself*: reflexive 010
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I just completed my first course (thanks @frank.computer) from the Open Visualization Academy (OVA). I am in awe of the quality of the labor and care that went into building this free repository. What a beautiful gift. 📊 192
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 30/01/2026The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization 8240106
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotAndrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.youtube.comPart 1: How do LLMs work?YouTube video by Andrew Perfors 20505194
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT 14446992152
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Went to the library to pick up a hold. A man behind me asked what the book was about and why I was reading it. I joked I should leave a note in each library book that says: “if you read this, you might want to join my book club”. He had interesting suggestions for further reading. #5minutebookclub 010
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 18/11/2025This is superb #dataviz.📊 transnewsinitiative.orgtransnewsinitiative.orgTrans News InitiativeA database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities. 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Never tell a data visualization designer how old you are, lest you fall into one of their "age cohorts" and they start personalizing their charts "for your age": ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/110... #dataviz 📊ieeexplore.ieee.orgAn Age-based Study into Interactive Narrative Visualization EngagementResearch has shown that an audiences' age impacts their engagement in digital media. Interactive narrative visualization is an increasingly popular form of digital media that combines data visualizati... 020
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotCivic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Civic Spark is built by us — the civic tech community. Join us Aug 16–17 for a volunteer-led gathering shaping the future of public life. Full story → civictech.ca/announcements/civic-spark Tickets → civic-spark.com 01716
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 12/07/2025If you think you're 20% faster but you're actually 19% slower, you're 32.5% slower than you think. 021
Reposted by Michiel Duvekotshri @shrikhalpada.dev · 10/07/2025how the side the on the left keeps convincing the side on the right that they need more space is beyond me 46726
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotVoilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 21/06/2025Today is #showyourstripes. The design of the stripes is deceptively simple. We tried to understand it and even spoke to Ed Hawkins about it, and they are actually harder to explain than it seems!chezvoila.comDo you really understand the influential warming stripes? - Voilà:Chances are that you’ve come across this image somewhere: Warming stripes for the globe from 1850-2018 You may have seen this elegant visualisation of rising global temperatures on social media, on th... 0185
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! Perhaps look at some stunningly beautiful art to celebrate: iningatilagiit.cainingatilagiit.caᐃᓂᖓᑦ ᐃᓚᒌᑦ Iningat Ilagiit | Connecting through the Cape Dorset ArchiveWELCOME TO ININGAT ILAGIIT Inuit artists from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) have created thousands of drawings over many decades. An archive of over 80,000 drawings made between the 1950s and 1990 is housed ... 010
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotWilliam Careri @wcareri.com · 20/06/2025Introducing VizDex! An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. vizdexproject.comvizdexproject.comVizDexA library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. 911431
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Good stuff from @abmakulec.bsky.social vizresponsibly.substack.com/p/why-humans... Here's my version of the Edelman Trust Barometer visualization" 020
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotSonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 17/06/2025A short #thread on my Recalibrate talk at Data+Women. Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects. #dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4 Do let me know what think/feel 🙏 youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...youtu.beData Art - RecalibrateYouTube video by Annabelle Rincon 2127
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 13/06/2025This gave me hope that a liberatory data feminism can move the field forward and make the world a little better: 📊 ✊mcorrell.medium.comSmooth and Striated Data VisualizationOr: The Chart and Revolution 030
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotJeff Allen @jamaps.bsky.social · 13/06/2025recent experiment mapping daily travel mode share in Toronto via weaving space more info about this little project here: schoolofcities.github.io/transportati... #toronto #maps #gis #dataviz 44217
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 05/06/2025This makes a lot of sense: truth-and-beauty.net/texts/the-pr... 📊📈truth-and-beauty.netTruth & Beauty - The Process 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Good: www.datachangemakers.org 📊datachangemakers.orgData Changemakers | Data drives real change. We're here to make sure it does for evey mission driven organization.Inspired by the success of Viz for Social Good, Data ChangeMakers empowers data enthusiasts to deliver data-driven solutions and create meaningful impact 031
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Here's an idea I like: "build up from simpler graphs, explaining each new degree of freedom as it comes up" statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/31/t...statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu The ladder of abstraction in statistical graphics | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 010
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Know your enemy: When Fascists Chart www.chartography.net/p/when-fasci...chartography.netWhen Fascists Chart1940s Nazi information-graphic propaganda from Signal magazine. 031
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotDaniel Zvinca @danz68.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Are you aware of any data visualization designs that use optical illusions to enhance the intended message? 382
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotCivic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 26/05/2025We’re putting on a conference! Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025 civic-spark.com Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside. Help change that. 🧵 11914
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotACLU @aclu.org · 19/04/2025BREAKING: A federal judge finds Trump’s order banning transgender people from getting accurate passports is likely unconstitutional. The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone. 263559893
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Getting cognitive dissonance from reading an article on why radar charts are the worst observablehq.com/blog/avoid-r... (agreeing vehemently), and then reading another article www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi... with a very nice example of a radar chart (but... that's pretty good) #datavis 📊observablehq.comBuilding better data tools with Observable | Observable blogLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTubeLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTubeArticles and content designed to help you build stronger dashboards, data apps, and reports. 061
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotMolly White @molly.wiki · 15/02/2025not sure what's worse about the DOGE site: unsecured databases, leaking of classified information, or these chart crimes 671149157
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotSarah Fossheim @fossheim.bsky.social · 02/12/2024New blog post out (first one in over a year 🥵): I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility principles, and explained where things went wrong, including lots of demos. fossheim.io/writing/post...fossheim.ioDataviz accessibility principles, demonstrated by the 2024 presidential election dashboards. by Sarah L. FossheimI tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong (including lots of demos). 36119
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotData Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 08/02/2024We're finally on Bluesky! 59317
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotVoilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 29/01/2024HOW TO GET STARTED ON DATAVIZ BLUESKY 📊 IN 9 STEPS If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it. Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it. 🧵👇 33921
Reposted by Michiel DuvekotLisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 22/12/2023I'm annoyed by the number of social networks these days, so I've decided to only read the feed of one of them for a month and then switch. (I'll still post & check notifications on each of them.) I start here, with Bluesky. I'm looking forward to all your data visualizations, links, and opinions! 7435
