Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Not the smoothest start to #inktober this year, but we are back with some more things that look like they fell off of a tree. Bonus points to anyone who can identify these 030
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ll be doing #inktober for the next 31 days, so heads up you can mute the tag if you’re not interested! 050
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Give me your recommendations for what phone I should buy next. I currently have an iPhone SE (2nd gen) and I like that it’s not huge and still fits in my pocket 001
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Lifestyle creep but for photo resolution. My phone camera used to be just fine but now everyone has iphone 38s and suddenly looking at everyone else’s photos I feel like I need more megapixels?? 011
Reposted by Elsie LRlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/05/2026another beautiful day of looking at screens ahead of us 251988415
Reposted by Elsie LRAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 13/07/2026NEW OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY COURSE! 'Learning Objectives for Communicative Visualization' by @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social and @eytan.adar.prof : openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/new-course... #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalismopenvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.comNew course in the Open Visualization Academy: 'Learning Objectives for Communicative Visualization'Elsie Lee-Robbins and Eytan Adar offer a framework to help designers make appropriate decisions 0298
Reposted by Elsie LRAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 16/04/2026BIG OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY UPDATE: 10+ more instructors and 10+ more courses to be released on a monthly basis #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization @alyssafowers.bsky.social @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social @petrinkae.bsky.social @rsimmon.bsky.social and many othersopenvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.comA big update on the Open Visualization AcademyNew instructors, new courses, and what to expect in the next 12-15 months 03213
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Thanks @puellaludens.bsky.social for the awesome Art Against AI workshop yesterday! I made this linocut area chart of electricity consumption of US data centers. It’s expected to more than double by 2030. Data source: Pew Research Center / International Energy Agency’s Energy and AI Report 150
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025What an amazing #Outlier2025 conference this year! Here are just a few of my highlights, out of the MANY talks and speakers I loved. 170
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025‘What if we started with ”what if”’? Excited to reimagine data visualization at Outlier virtually this year! 📊 020
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 23/03/2025After trying a few different tax filing systems, I highly recommend FreeTaxUSA. I used them this year and it was so easy and great and free for federal taxes and only $15 for filing state taxes. 020
Reposted by Elsie LRThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/03/2025National parks had a record number of visits last year. Now, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers amid the Trump administration’s mass firings of rangers and other employees.nytimes.comNational Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet.As the administration fires rangers and other workers, an internal memo is directing the National Park Service not to publicize visitors numbers. 68850344
Reposted by Elsie LRVoilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 15/02/2025This has been doing the rounds this week for its topic and interactivity, but reading it in detail today makes me admire the writing. It is so precise. It's a feat onto itself and part of the general elegance. flowingdata.com/projects/dis...flowingdata.comDefense Against Dishonest ChartsThis is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things. 0279
Reposted by Elsie LRKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...kcur.orgEgg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expectBird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores. 24095242617452
Reposted by Elsie LRZane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever... Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.scientificamerican.comEveryone Who Has Ever Been to Space, ChartedSpace traveler demographics have shifted over time 13313
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Loving this viz from The Little Book of Hygge, what a fun way to show a ton of data points on a small page by overlapping them 020
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Instead of writing something that makes sense on our felt board, Taylor and I have started just taking the letters that are already there and anagram them into something else (one letter swap allowed) 130
Reposted by Elsie LRData Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 09/01/2025We're reading Data Sketches for this month's DVS Readers' Club. The authors Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu will be joining us on Jan 25, so come ready with your questions during the Q&A session. Register: buff.ly/409TLxF 0225
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Data snake 🫶🐍 www.instagram.com/reel/DDaUmCs...instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 000
Reposted by Elsie LR👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference. 4343606510385
Reposted by Elsie LRKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025If you’d like the citation for that statement, it is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 1.5C report, which concluded: 1254394
Reposted by Elsie LRKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️ 318318599157
Reposted by Elsie LRMorgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this 597344157688
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 08/01/2025I went to the DVS coworking event today to ideate on a data vis project… is it stupid to do a datavis on my personal carbon footprint? lmk 140
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Did I get my nephew Encyclopedia Infographica for Christmas for him or was it because I wanted to read it? 🌋 📊 040
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I walked outside today and it was 58°. In DECEMBER. Is anyone else distressed by this?? 120
Reposted by Elsie LREvan Peck @peck.phd · 20/11/2024Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1... 921577458
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Accidentally fell asleep while listening to an audiobook and now I am on Chapter 5 and have no idea how much I need to rewind 150
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Giorgia Lupi on collecting data - "What we decide to focus on kind of shapes your reality" www.youtube.com/live/VZ-cw76... 📊youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 040
Reposted by Elsie LRNYT Tech Guild @nytguildtech.bsky.social · 04/11/2024We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes.com management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices. 5027231053
Reposted by Elsie LRData Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 21/10/2024If you're working through your PhD in #dataviz or in a related field, come and share ideas, discuss your work, and make new connections. This event is open to all levels of experience. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dataviz-ph... 195
Reposted by Elsie LRAndrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social · 16/10/2024Plugged it discord, but posting our alt vis (alt #ieeevis ? ) from last year here too. Come for the incredibly good figure(s), stay for our enumeration of different conference formats that might sustain vis in light of the climate crisis arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15429 062
Reposted by Elsie LRPatrick Stotz @patrickstotz.bsky.social · 09/10/2024Both are true at the same time: - We have a dense network of post offices in Germany 🏤 - Coverage does not meet legal requirements in all regions Our data driven analysis of the situation, including a visit to one of the new automated post offices 📮. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s... 0103
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 26/08/2024Want to create clear, user-focused, and measurable goals for your #dataviz📊 projects? Check out my mini Youtube series on the topic of my dissertation research, learning objectives for communicative data visualization. youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comLearning objectives for data visualization - YouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 074
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 28/03/2024The Barkley Marathons but its where you start a research project at noon on March 28th and have to submit it to VIS by March 31st. Winners are anyone who has their paper accepted to the conference. 010
Reposted by Elsie LRJess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 16/03/2024strong alt text showing here 216047
Reposted by Elsie LRDaniele Gibney @danielegibney.bsky.social · 02/03/2024Cross stitch data visualisation of the books I read in 2022. 161
Reposted by Elsie LRJacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 12/02/2024This article on snow days by Amy O'Kruk is wonderful, & the design details on the charts are *chef's kiss*. I'm a big fan of using topical iconography/imagery with charts when it makes sense. Using snow shovels as columns elevates this chart and makes it memorable. 📊 www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/u... 1315
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 10/02/2024A dumb question but how do you make a poll on here 000
Reposted by Elsie LREli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 09/02/2024Gabby Merite and I are doing a newsletter! We're calling it Effect+Affect. You can sign up at effaff.com The idea: We think 📊 data design research is super cool. We use it in our own design work. But academic papers are Zzz and intimidating. So we're attempting to translate our favorites into...effaff.comEffect & AffectWhere we discuss the weird and wonderful ways that information design can impact our thoughts, attitudes, behaviors and beliefs. A newsletter by Gabrielle Merite and Eli Holder. 2219
Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 06/02/2024Excited that my LEGO data visualization won the U-M round and is now onto the next round in the B1G data viz competition!!! 🎉 Check out all of the other viz here: btaa.org/research/lov... and if you are at a big ten university, please vote for me! 📊 1314
Reposted by Elsie LRLuisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024I’m excited to share a data art project I’ve been working on this month! It’s a quilt made using the data of all the books I read in 2023 📊 44215
Reposted by Elsie LRThe Pudding @pudding.cool · 25/01/2024We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers. 🧑🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads 🗓️ June 18 – Sept 1 💰 $7,200 stipend 📝 More details at this link! pudding.cool/career/cohort/pudding.coolJoin Our 2024 CohortWe created a summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers to author a project on The Pudding 01514
