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Miriam Quick

@miriamquick.bsky.social
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Journalist, author, musician, sonifier. I make things with data. Half of Loud Numbers.

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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As always: no AI in the composition. I wrote the string parts by hand, on paper. Duncan Geere recorded the percussion himself, using samples of real-world sounds. Full making-of (4 min): www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMOx... Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/6wBaCa... More: www.loudnumbers.net
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The Sound of Business | Financial Symphony by Sage x Loud Numbers
YouTube video by Sage
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Electronics: pulses tuned to a stack of open fifths, one per rand of South African payroll, euro cent of French payroll and $10 of US payouts. Percussion is hand-recorded taps and knocks, working like a chart axis: you hear time pass.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Strings: 1 bar = 1 quarter, Q1 2015 to Q1 2026, at 52 BPM. Payment speed was sorted into nine bands, each with its own rhythm: the faster invoices got paid, the shorter the opening note and the busier the bar. Volume = average invoice size, pp to ff.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔊Sound on! We made the Financial Symphony with Axicom for Sage: string quartet + electronics, built from 11 years of anonymised business data from the UK, US, France & South Africa. Here’s how it was made 🧵
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a really good conference. Wish I could make it this year!
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love this
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These AI trainer roles are like 50% of my LinkedIn job suggestions at the mo
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yep, same. More serif fonts needed
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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 06/08/2026
Thank you to Melissa Kirsch for including 'The Seinfeld Chronicles' project in the New York Times 'Good List' newsletter which brings "6 Things to Add Delight to Your Day" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/b... (and thanks to @nigelblue.bsky.social for the heads up!)
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Beautifully written
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Remember The Seinfeld Chronicles? @visualisingdata.com’s massive dataviz deep dive into Seinfeld now has a digital edition – enhanced with sound and video. At Loud Numbers, Duncan Geere and I built a data-to-music engine for all 176 episodes. Fun, silly, rigorous. 👉 seinfeld.visualisingdata.com
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The Seinfeld Chronicles, digital edition, will be launched next week. It’s a giant, sound-enhanced data experience all about Seinfeld. Join @visualisingdata.com, @annemariedufour.bsky.social, Duncan Geere and me on 29 June to find out how we made it. Register 👉 visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...
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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 10/06/2026
The final ever episode of 'Explore Explain' will be a recorded live webinar on 29 June 1pm (UTC) where I and my brilliant collaborators will both explore and explain the creative process behind the new digital edition of 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'. Register now! visualisingdata.com/2026/06/expl...
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Explore Explain Final Episode: Live Webinar! - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere
On Monday 29th June I will be hosting and recording a live episode of my 'Explore Explain' video and podcast series. This will be the final episode of season 6. It will also be the final episode ever!
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Sentient @sentientmedia.org · 04/06/2026
Ready-to-eat meats, like hot dogs and deli meats, are responsible for at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings, a Sentient analysis found. @greymoran.bsky.social and @miriamquick.bsky.social report:
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Ready to Recall: These Meats Are Behind 40% of USDA Food Warnings
A Sentient analysis reveals that at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings over the past decade are linked to ready-to-eat meats, such as deli meats, hot dogs and pâté.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
At least 40% of USDA food recalls are for ready-to-eat meat: deli meats, hot dogs, pâté. Piece by @greymoran.bsky.social and me: sentientmedia.org/recall-these...
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Ready to Recall: These Meats Are Behind 40% of USDA Food Warnings
A Sentient analysis reveals that at least 40% of USDA food safety warnings over the past decade are linked to ready-to-eat meats, such as deli meats, hot dogs and pâté.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Love this
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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Just when you thought there was no possible way to do a fresh data angle on the Eurovision... Love this look at the lyrics by @puntofisso.bsky.social puntofisso.net/eurovision/
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70 years of love, empowerment, and freedom. Here's a look at Eurovision by its lyrics.
Famous for its upbeat rhythms, flamboyant performances, and political voting patterns, Eurovision has another dimension that moves with the zeitgeist: its song lyrics.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Weird they chose to make the Green Party bar shorter given it seems to be a Green publication. Underdog mentality?
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I designed the graphics for this important story by @mccoolingtons.bsky.social and @ludovicparsons.bsky.social. Take care when reading, topic is upsetting.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Proud to have played a part in this project
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Good idea! Will contact them
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I went on the Nick Grimshaw show on BBC 6 Music talking about turning data into music, and about visualising David Bowie’s Space Oddity. Listen back from 1:41:30 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Nick Grimshaw - Toheeb Jimoh - BBC Sounds
Toheeb Jimoh. star of Ted Lasso and Industry joins Nick to discuss his favourite music.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
And mine! Along with this
Proximity Studies art print by Mike Brondbjerg, white on black data artwork
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thanks Mike! You’re welcome - your work on the Oddityviz video was amazing!
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Grey Moran @greymoran.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Turkey industry workers make around $18 per hour, at great risk to their health. @miriamquick.bsky.social & I looked at the 351 injuries - from severed fingers to injured corneas - suffered by the workers who produce the turkey many will enjoy in the coming days sentientmedia.org/the-hidden-c...
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Heat Exhaustion, Amputated Fingers, Crushed Limbs: The Hidden Cost of American Turkey
Three charts reveal details of the 351 workplace injuries experienced by turkey industry workers in 2024, which include severed fingers, injured corneas and musculoskeletal disorders.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Thanks Sonja! The music track is also on Bandcamp at loudnumbers.bandcamp.com/track/hold-t...
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Hold The Line, by Loud Numbers
track by Loud Numbers
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I crunched the numbers for this @nytimes.com piece by Alex Marshall on how to win Eurovision. What would you add to this list? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/a...
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How to Win Eurovision in 7 Easy Steps
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 17/04/2025
87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you want to join the broader US govt data rescue efforts, there’s a list of ways to help at www.datarescueproject.org/current-effo...
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Current Efforts
There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based efforts to capture and preserve data in early 2025. Below are the efforts we are aware of and their collecting scopes. This list was deve...
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
B, because it’s the only one that isn’t the odd one out
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This was excellent
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 15/03/2025
Estimates by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social @justsand.bsky.social: US foreign aid likely prevents 2.3 to 5.6 million deaths annually, largely in Africa. And that a complete disruption would result in over 4000 lives lost per day.
Chart showing lives saved by US foreign aid by sector, lives potentially lost per day during aid freeze, cost per life saved, annual US aid amount.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
All the best!
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This looks like a very nice dataviz job but it’s not an artist role…
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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 14/03/2025
A huge shoutout to @christian.czymara.com 🙌 who created a customised #rstats chatgpt called Code Nerd that replies only with bare code. It's absolutely magnificent 😍 chatgpt.com/g/g-J5futwiV...
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Interesting. Sleeping badly is linked with belief in conspiracy theories theconversation.com/how-poor-sle...
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How poor sleep could fuel belief in conspiracy theories
By prioritising good sleep we may be able to boost our ability to think critically and resist misinformation.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Oh no 😔
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Good news! The current lack of transparency about UK land ownership is ridiculous.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I am sorry to hear that. I wish you all the best.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
As always, the decision whether to start at axis at zero is a complex one. Here’s a great discussion: www.chadskelton.com/2018/06/bar-...
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Bar charts should always start at zero. But what about line charts?
If there's one thing almost everyone agrees on in data visualization, it's that bar charts should start at zero . Starting them anywhere e...
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I work in data visualisation. It’s absolutely the case that bar charts should start at zero but line charts don’t have to. See this ONS blog: digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2016/06/27/d...
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Does the axis have to start at zero? (Part 1 – line charts)
At the risk of ruffling a few data vis feathers … no? But there are often occasions when it should. Let’s take a look at line charts first ...Line charts focus on change, not compari
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Go back to X sweetheart, you'll like it more there.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’d be interested to understand more about the (presumably relatively small number of) older people who don’t have kids and appear less happy - how many of them *chose* to remain childfree vs *couldn’t* have kids eg bc of disability, health issues?
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It’s not misleading. Origin point doesn’t have to be at zero in a line chart, only a bar chart. The key differences are between age groups and between those with / without kids, and they are best shown by zooming in to relevant bit of y axis, as he does.
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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ofc this is also a potential privacy risk if you’re working with sensitive data so use appropriately.
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The main advantage, apart from less faff and finger strain, is that the AI has access to your full environment, so knows what’s in your dataframe, what objects you’ve created etc. No more long queries that start ‘I have a dataframe, df’ 😂
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
So I’ve just discovered you can use the R packages gander and ellmer to chat with AI assistants directly in RStudio. Sooooo much easier than copy pasting chunks of code into ChatGPT. simonpcouch.github.io/gander/
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High Performance, Low Friction Large Language Model Chat
Introduces a Copilot-like completion experience, but it knows how to talk to the objects in your R environment. ellmer chats are integrated directly into your RStudio and Positron sessions, automatica...
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thanks for the add
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Miriam Quick @miriamquick.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
And Musk agreed to his transgender daughter’s transition treatment, although now claims he didn’t. You’d think personal experience would give them, idk, empathy?
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