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Narottam Medhora

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Data and digital graphics developer @thetimes & @thesundaytimes. Previously @NerdWallet @Reuters.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video
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Ben Welsh @palewi.re · 02/02/2026
📚 I'm pleased to release my syllabus and course materials for "Coding the News," the class I'm leading this semester for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/02/2026
The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
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dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
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Dr Anna Lombardi @annalombardi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's official 🎉 Visualising Climate 2026 is here! visualisingclimate.com First international conference of its kind, it'll bring together artists, scientists, journalists all moved by the same desire to better communicate our changing climate 🌍 🗓️ Join us in Bologna, Nov 4-6 #dataviz #climatecrisis
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Visualising Climate 2026 — Conference
The first global conference dedicated to how data visualisation can transform public understanding of climate change and support informed decision-making.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/01/2026
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 22/01/2026
In the newsletter: The Open Visualization Academy is almost here. We launch next week; save the date! openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-v... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism
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The Open Visualization Academy is almost here
We launch next week; save the date!
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Ben Fry @benfry.com · 17/09/2025
Our Rowboat tool is about instantly seeing what's in a dataset, so we added a Chrome Extension that lets you open random datasets from all over the internet. Right click, poof! 0.2 seconds later we see what this dataset actually looks like. No workspace to set up, no waiting for the app, no db.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 14/09/2025
Today, @vonter.bsky.social and I launched cbfc.watch, an archive of over 100k censorship records for ~18k movies released in India since 2017. For the first time, you can search for any movie and see how they were modified before release. The site is fun to explore, but here's some #dataviz in it!
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
📊 Visual journalism often takes weeks to produce, even though a similar written article may only take a day or two. Jonas Oesch takes a closer look at a typical visual story to uncover why it takes so long to produce and what can be done to speed up the process. nightingaledvs.com/why-visual-j...
An illustrated gif of two conveyer belts, one with a traditional media story moving quickly and one with a visual story moving slower.
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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Want to create your own custom marks in @observablehq.com Plot, but don't want to go full D3? I've created a guide with 6 approaches of varying sophistication for specifying reusable custom marks: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/h...
A selection of custom marks generated with Observable Plot. From top to bottom: A categorical bar chart with black hachured patterns in 6 different directions; A faceted bar chart using Isotope symbols showing cattle, pigs and sheep in red, grey and blue; a sequence of geometric symbols in blue gradually increasing in size: circle, triangle, square and fan, repeating 3 times, below which is a sequence of 12 human-like figures also increasing in size; A curve made up of ellipses that transition from vertical to horizontal to cicrcular shapes; a set of thee dot and whisker symbols in black and white; an abstract geometric arrangement of teardrop shapes in green to brown colours forming concentric bands away from the bottom left; a map of cycle hire journeys in London represented by asymmetric curves in a range of colours, overlaid over the river Thames; a map on London boroughs symbolised with dots of varying density with the highest density of dots towards the outside, lowest in the centre; a 'chart' of flowers of different shades of purple and orange.
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 23/04/2025
I wrote about the data-to-ink ratio and a new game I've invented called "ink golf" for data visualization. I hope you enjoy: www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...
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Minimalism and the absurdity of the data-to-ink-ratio
How much minimalism is too much minimalism? I explore this question and propose the most minimalist, highest scoring data-to-ink ratio on a visualization ever made as a thought piece. Why? Well novice...
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 13/02/2025
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 14/02/2025
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/02/2025
Where did DOGE's recruits come from? Here's what we've discovered. In late 2024, a group of young software engineers fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers. At least three were associated with Palantir or its cofounder—and Musk ally—Peter Thiel.
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The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Unfortunately, all Census TIGER/Line and cartographic boundary shapefiles are down as of this evening. This means that the tigris #rstats and pygris #Python packages will not work, and geometry support in tidycensus will also fail. The Census API, for now, is still up.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 31/01/2025
It feels like every time I investigate something in central London, it leads back to Asif Aziz. Please read this about the Prince Charles Cinema, exclusive deals to import Nestle products to wartorn Angola, and property deals in every corner of the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...
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Prince Charles Cinema: Has London's "meanest landlord" met his match?
Plus: Scroll down to find out who is putting a helicopter storage facility in their south London garden, and a mysterious water contamination at the V&A.
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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
After spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned: 1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself. 2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST. (1/?)
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”
A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.
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Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Found among the AI projects the UK government is building for civil servants: a tool for automatically redacting documents.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/01/2025
NEW: Now you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools. By @cerealcommas.bsky.social, @natlash.bsky.social & @schwanksta.com
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ProPublica Releases New Private School Demographics Lookup
Now you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools.
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George Willoughby @gwjournalism.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🚨 NEW: Working with the excellent @davidwoode.bsky.social, we looked at knife crime and analysed who are the perpetrators and who are the victims @thetimes.com 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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Knife crime is rising — we looked at the data to find out why
Analysing a decade of crime statistics exposes the scale of fatal stabbings and knife possession across England and Wales
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Prasanta Kumar Dutta @pkddapacific.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Excited to announce the first session of 2025: Electric Dreaming. Folks in London, join us on Jan. 25 for a hands-on creative coding workshop where you'll recreate classical computer artworks and generate prints using a pen plotter. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-c...
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/01/2025
Meta deletes trans and nonbinary Messenger themes Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed. 🔗 www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.
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Jan Van Haaren @janvanhaaren.be · 29/12/2024
Continuing the tradition, I have compiled an end-of-year overview of the soccer analytics content that I liked the most in the past year. The 2024 edition includes pointers to over 160 resources, including research papers, blog posts, articles, podcasts, and books. janvanhaaren.be/posts/soccer...
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Soccer Analytics 2024 Review – Jan Van Haaren
Collection of the soccer analytics content that I liked the most in 2024!
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vonter.bsky.social @vonter.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
BLR City Officials: Find details about your local stakeholders and officials from various government departments in Bengaluru 🔗 cityofficials.bengawalk.com
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BLR City Officials
Find your local jurisdiction and officials from BBMP, BESCOM, BWSSB, Police and more.
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Bryan’s Gunn @bryansgunn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 15/12/2024
City with 0.29 xG from open play and Gary Neville acting like they’ve been unlucky to lose this game 🙄
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Follow @thetimes.com data team! 👇 @venetiamenzies.bsky.social @joeydurso.bsky.social @gwjournalism.bsky.social @matildakdavies.bsky.social @yennahsmart.bsky.social @danatherton.bsky.social @narottam.bsky.social @michael-keith.bsky.social @annadowell.bsky.social @marietamarinova.bsky.social
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 29/11/2024
Briefly checked in to the other place only to see a blue tick getting shilled in my notifications 🤮
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 28/11/2024
I've never heard a co-commentator speak as much tactical nonsense in 15 minutes as Robbie Savage has this evening.
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 24/11/2024
It's one game (it's one game!) but my goodness there's so much work to do
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 24/11/2024
Also, there've been a couple of times where Dalot and Amad have played the pass inside to the front three, but the players there usually lose possession with their backs to goal.
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 24/11/2024
Massive struggle after the early lead. Really lacking ideas in buildup and the inability to create settled play in the opposition third is still a worry.
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 24/11/2024
Well deserved equaliser to be fair
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 24/11/2024
Dream start that
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 23/11/2024
And conceding cutbacks 👀
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 23/11/2024
Football team in Manchester with a vacuous midfield that's struggling in defensive transitions is it
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 21/11/2024
Well, I guess the question is who else has access to Elon’s X account?!!
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 18/11/2024
So many more people here now! Re-sharing the incomplete but useful data viz starter pack: go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
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Michael Keith @michael-keith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Experiments in creating hand-drawn style graphics in JS, with RoughJS and D3. observablehq.com/d/01153746b3...
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 16/11/2024
I absolutely love the nitty-gritty details here
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Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com · 14/11/2024
🧵Okay let's do some BTS for Axios' elections #dataviz. 1/5: We used <canvas> for our big maps, which means we had to do some tricks with color hashes to get interactivity. What the reader sees vs. what the computer sees. Details on how it works: observablehq.com/@camargo/can...
A 2024 presidential election map where the states are colored red or blue depending on the candidate that won the state.A 2024 presidential election map where the states are all colored a slightly different shade of red or green. Each state has a unique color.
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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 15/11/2024
Made one for soccer analytics dorks go.bsky.app/Hu8kEtH
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 15/11/2024
That Amorim interview (and Ruud’s games to be fair)
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a man says just when i thought i was out in a kitchen
Alt: Al Pacino says the just when i thought i was line from Godfather III
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Narottam Medhora @narottam.dev · 15/11/2024
Oh this is great! Been looking for one of these for ages on here.
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Chiqui Esteban 🇺🇸🇪🇺 @chiquiesteban.me · 11/11/2024
Ella Brockway, Artur Galocha and Alvaro Valiño combined to explain Trinity Rodman’s ‘Trin Spin’ and I’m all for soccer graphics all the time www.washingtonpost.com/sports/inter...
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How Trinity Rodman does the ‘Trin Spin,’ her dazzling signature move
The “Trin Spin” encapsulates what has made Trinity Rodman one of the most exciting players in soccer and put her on a trajectory, her coaches say, to be the best player in the world.
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