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There are so many better options than Spotify for music and Elliot helpfully breaks plenty of options for you. elliotjaystocks.com/blog/spotify

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Elliot Jay Stocks | The search for a Spotify alternative

Elliot Jay Stocks is a designer and author, usually doing something with typography

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Observable @observablehq.com · 19h

The agent can now read other notebooks, both public ones and your private ones. You can just paste a link, or create a collection called “Skills”; notebooks in a “Skills” collection get highlighted in the attachments menu. Here we demonstrate a very strict style guide.

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 13/10/2026

A bump for this - we're still looking for participants in our Creative Dataviz workshop, in London on November 3rd. Message me for a discount code!

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Alan Smith @theboysmithy.ft.com · 12/10/2026

We are hiring in the US! The @financialtimes.com is looking for a DC- or NYC-based data journalist job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

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US Data Journalist

New York; Washington DC

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yeah, it is grim. Hopefully we can make a tool that points to where things should be improved... That's the hope.

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Now looking at relationships between London's school locations and pedestrian traffic collisions. We're going to be making this into a fully explorable dashboard soon, looking at where kids actually commute from, but for now this initial data exploration with @observablehq.com is so useful!

A selected school (blue dots) and it's connections to pedestrian traffic collisions (red dots)

Scatterplot of schools mapped to number of collisions (within 1KM) and average distance of those collisions from the school

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

just when you thought it couldn’t get worse

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Quite possibly my favourite album of all time..

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hmm.. so I've started a poorly considered war with Iran, sending oil markets spiralling out of control. How can I make things even worse for everyone, while trying to save my own skin before the mid-terms?

Guardian headline: Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel

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Albumism @albumism.com · 20/09/2026

A Tribe Called Quest released their second studio album ‘The Low End Theory’ (1991) 35 years ago this week | Listen to the album + read our tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/ATCQLowEnd

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yep.. when men were real men, and peasants knew their place. 😔

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How long before someone turns this livestream execution into some hideous Polymarket gambling opportunity? Or perhaps there'll be some kind of commemorative bitcoin released... FFS America!!

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Sean Lynch @techniq.dev · 08/10/2026

📊 LayerChart: a new dimension New in v2.6.0, `view={isometric}` can be passed to any Chart to add a tilted perspective to your Svg, Canvas, and Html layers. Going further, use the `z` accessor to add (faux) 3D depth rendering for most marks.

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd love to.. need to check if data is shareable.

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've got to say, Observable's AI assistant is a huge win for intitial exploratory data analysis / visualisation! If you know what you're looking for, it puts the wrangling and plot code together really well!! This was done in roughly 5 hours? (Note: data is experimental, for initial exploration)

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's really nice to work with. Really helps unblock the boring stuff, and stay focused.

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For most of history, the world was a pyramid. Now it's flipping. Pyramid Scheme: every country's population by age, 1950 → 2100, in 2D and 3D. Spin the globe, pick a country. pyramid.klet.app #dataviz #populationPyramid

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Observable's AI and I, exploring London's traffic collisions data. Here showing pedestrian casualties, aged <=18. The red colour encoding (levels of severity) creates quite the striking output. 😔 Perhaps it's too much. (Note: data is experimental, for initial exploration)

a scatterplot (easting vs northing) of traffic collions in Greater London. Each point is a red dot, suggesting the a blood pattern.

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Is political debate just (I assume, AI slop) parody Bayeux tapestries now? *sigh*

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Aaron U. Salmon @aaronsalmon.com · 02/10/2026

This is absolute virtual meeting background GOLD.

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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Phosphor now supports bivariate color palettes! 👉 www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/ Bivariate palettes can be exported directly to #ArcGISPro styles, #RStats (using biscale), and #QGIS (via the Bivariate plugin).

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Baba Yaga's Hut @babayagashut.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW SHOW: @warringtonruncorn.com at the ICA May 22nd Tickets on sale Monday at 10am, save the ticket now via Dice link.dice.fm/R51e7a841af1 @castlesinspace.bsky.social

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This has been doing the rounds again 😂😬 bsky.app/profile/ceej...

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More problems caused by parisitic tech bros solving problems that nobody asked them to "solve" in the first place... FFS

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend, "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." 📜🧪

A line of Charles Darwin's handwriting in brown ink on cream paper, with faint writing showing through from the other side of the page. It reads: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listen to that CRUNCH. Absolutely delicious. #WorldBollardAssociation

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Theo Beastly @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Lisa Hornung @lisahornung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weather reports going #3D #dataviz 👀 Mesmerizing and insightful 😍🌧️

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zenbullets @zenbullets.com · 29/09/2026

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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. No shortcut gets you there: the process leaves a trace."

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Timeline cleanse

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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan @warringtonruncorn.com · 27/09/2026

"I had to leave the country because I couldn't drive my highly inefficient luxury car in a very congested city" is not the position of strength you think it is, The Telegraph.

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Georgios Karamanis @karaman.is · 25/09/2026

IKEA names its sofas after Swedish places, and most of its armchairs follow the same rule. IKEA Sweden sells 64 of them right now, and I put every one on a map. Pick a sofa or armchair and see where it comes from! karaman.is/ikea-place-n... #dataviz #maps

A web page titled "The IKEA place-name map". On the left, a dropdown has MALMKÖPING selected. Below it is a photo of a beige 3-seat sofa priced from 7 295 kr, and it is placed in Flens kommun, Södermanlands län. On the right is a map of Sweden with dots for sofas, armchairs and places that have both. Most dots are in the south, and Älmhult, IKEA's home town, is marked with a red cross.

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is REALLY Nice!!! I particulalry like "marbling op art" mode. 🤩

Elevation map of the world binned into black and white stripes

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