Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026dtl VandenKeere, Granjon perhaps or Adobe's Garamond Premier Pro get pretty close. 020
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026An insight is anything that is preceded by: “Oh, shit, is that how…” 120
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Don't blame the historians. They have been trying, but we wouldn't listen. 010
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 020
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 13/02/2026PSA: for your mental health and sanity do not read Fortune commentary pieces by a 23 year old CEO of a startup that sets other people's money on fire and claims he is not needed for the "technical work", but still wants to get paid for software he can vibecode, but you cannot, for some reason. 150
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Explainability, especially when used in the same context as "trustable". 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026That would have been so much better as a small multiple of rug plots though... 100
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
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026More like this would have been better then? I like that they're trying and ignoring people who want them to "just do normal line and bar charts". Not enough that I would resubscribe, but still... 100
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Binge-watched the entire series. Loved every minute. A thousand thanks. 110
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
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 13/01/2026You couldn't have given them a graphing calculator? 100
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Regulators ordered The Therac‑25 taken out of service immediately. Distribution of unsafe blood products was halted before the Krever investigation. Why is this government treating AI differently, when a system on the market today can be used to generate illegal and harmful material, including CSAM? 000
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 14446982151
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I love OWID and that they give you the datasets with their charts is just so absolutely the-right-thing to do. And yeah, that also means anyone can quickly remake any chart they publish. 110
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I find small multiples a bit easier to interpret: 140
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 08/12/2025My eyes! The color #ff00fe should be restricted to things that need to be removed prior to publication. Designers, please calibrate your monitors? Or turn off Night Shift when you're working? Tx, 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025"ein platter, geistloser, ekelhaft-widerlicher, unwissender Scharlatan, der, mit beispiellosen Frechheit, Aberwitz und Unsinn zusammenschmierte, welche von seinen Anhängern als Weisheit ausposaunt und von Dummköpfen richtig dafür genommen wurde" 100
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025A fresh layer of snow dampens sounds. For people who find the world too loud, that can be wonderful. 010
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 · 28/11/2025I mean that you must always measure the same thing, so you cannot have state-of-the-art benchmarks, you must use consistent benchmarks. 010
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Except that "metrics such as accuracy and speed, compared to state-of-the-art benchmarks" are not stable over time, so fair comparisons are not possible. 100
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Lib Dems are really bad at making charts though. 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 · 15/11/2025The printing press would never taken off it it hadn't been for the introduction of paper in Europe, a few centuries earlier. But nobody ever says "Paper democratized knowledge." 221
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 12/11/2025There was never any need to translate the term. The word is the same in French and English. Grain, as Bertin used it, referred to the variable roughness of paper that results in varying levels of light/dark. We still still call that paper grain. 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Interesting. I think that perhaps in relation to agentic AI we (people) are not so much the tool as we are a Bestand, a resource to be extracted and processed by an un-Ding that acts upon the world without existing in it. 110
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 25/10/2025The Dutch anthem doesn't start with "A". It is an acrostic: the first words of the first six stanzas are "Wilhelmus", "In", "Lijdt" "Lijf", "Edel" and "Mijn": WILLEM 010
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 25/09/2025If you thought that was bad, I'll give you this beauty from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' 2024 report on cosmetic surgery trends that the WSJ cites: 050
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 19/09/2025You’re welcome, but wouldn’t you want a better version? 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The patterns are easier to see in a small multiple 110
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 06/09/2025I read the second largest first. The largest is too big and somehow falls apart. It only works if I zoom out so much that the smallest text becomes illegible. 020
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
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 19/08/2025"De plank misslaan" is een verhaspeling van "de (loop)plank mis zijn" en "de bal misslaan". 🤦 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025People's motives for doing so become much clearer if you think of talking to an LLM as talking to yourself. 000
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Rephrased as testable hypothesis: Charts that maximize social proximity between maker and viewer while minimizing aesthetic intimidation will outperform technically superior charts in engagement metrics, provided they affirm the viewer's biases and offer an insight that is retrospectively obvious. 120
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025My aesthetic theory of crap: The viewer perceives a shitty chart as something they could have made, but didn't, and the reasserts their competence by sharing it. If a chart is really good, they can't do that. Those get shared only by people who –think– they're as competent as the creator. 120
Michiel Duvekot @duvekot.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Hagan Blix, in Why we fear AI has been making a similar argument. 100
