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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 29/09/2026

⭐ EARLY BIRD PRICES EXTENDED ⭐ More about my upcoming Creative Dataviz Workshop with Sophie Sparkes on November 3rd 2006 in London - we'd love to see you there. Happy to answer any questions! sparkescreative.kit.com/from-questio...

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 11/09/2026

Check out a new creative dataviz workshop with me and the super talented Sophie Sparkes! 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🍽️ Lunch included 🎟️ Early bird £295 until 27 September (or until sold out), then £395 sparkescreative.kit.com/from-questio...

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From Questions to Creation — Creative Data Visualisation Workshop London

A 1-day hands-on creative data visualisation workshop in London with Neil Richards and Sophie Sparkes. Inspiration in the morning. Making in the afternoon.

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 30/06/2026

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 29/06/2026

Our World Cup Sale is on! Now to the end of the tournament, if your country wins in the knockout stages, there's a code for you to get 20% off the first year. Welcome Canada! 🇨🇦 All in Canada, use CAN20 for 20% off. Know anyone who may be interested, now's the chance, you're Tor-onto a good thing!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 16/06/2026

View during the 2 day in person Data Visualisation & Storytelling course I delivered in Mallorca at the weekend. I can deliver the same great course for you/your team, on a sunny island, in the UK rain or online - passion and knowledge for dataviz is the same the world over! neilrichardsdata.com

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 09/06/2026

Starting tomorrow (Wednesday 10th) - our collaboration to help you with all things Tableau and AI, alongside a community of fellow learners on the same journey. Not too late to join for the very first session, at super discount founder member rates 👇 vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

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Lisa Charlotte Muth @lisacmuth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🟡🟠🔴 Just stumbled upon a great gradient/color palette generator by @obumbratta.com: obumbratta.com/colour It's inspired by Gregor Aisch's Color Palette Helper (gka.github.io/palettes/#/9...) and brings it to the next level with a color plot, contrast ratios, and different color spaces. 📊

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 29/05/2026

Announcing my collaboration with @vizdj.bsky.social - The Insights Collective Steve and I are investigating all things Tableau & AI, bringing learnings to our community via years of training experience. Join us as a founder member at heavily discounted rates Much more: vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 01/06/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - you worry you are turning into Victor Meldrew. That's because (like me, a fellow 1972 person) you have passed your Meldrew Point! You are older than Richard Wilson was when he started playing Victor Meldrew. Check this visualisation ...

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 29/05/2026

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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 28/05/2026

Hi to all followers and bluesky folks - it's been a long six months since I posted. It's hard to condense into 200ish characters, so I'll just say that redundancy and cancer hit one after the other. But we fight on - slowly venturing into the freelance space while prioritising health and recovery!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 13/11/2025

And there’s me worried about learning to crochet a granny square for grannylifecrochet.com

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Granny Life Community Build Project

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 12/11/2025

Still time to join the Granny Life community math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com ! My job is assembly, so today I am learning about braided fishing wire and how to tie fishing nets. Hoping to incorporate a strong net grid into the project. It's going to weigh about 15-20 pounds!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 11/11/2025

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: Is it time to embrace Granny Life? Created by @mathgrrl.com - a geometrical mathematically-generated 10x10 grid physical dataviz, to be displayed in a mathematical art exhibition in Paris next year. Still time for all to take part! questionsindataviz.com/2025/11/11/i...

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Is it time to embrace Granny Life?

Yes – It’s time for me to embrace the Granny Life. Not a sentence I was expecting to write any time soon. And also nothing to do with the recent realisation that my personal Meldrew Poi…

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different

Shitty map from the US Department of War website claiming the military has 4800 sites in over 160 countries but the placements are laughably wrong - for example a bunch are in Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and China. Yellow circles highlight where the dots are clearly copy pasted.

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 03/09/2025

A question for my German, Spanish and French friends on here: How to you refer to the term AI? Do people in French and Spanish refer to it as IA? And in German as KI? Or is it a global term known as AI pretty much everywhere? Thanks / Merci / Danke / Gracias!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 27/08/2025

What were the chances of that? - I met the guy who sold me the @datavandals.bsky.social T-shirt right here in Vienna! Great to catch up with @jasonforrest.bsky.social as part of @csh.ac.at’s Visualising Complexity workshop - so many great people are here collaborating on fun visualisation projects

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 25/08/2025

Looking forward to a week of fun complex dataviz in Vienna! 🇦🇹

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 20/08/2025

My latest article for @datavizsociety.bsky.social’s Nightingale magazine is out now. Check out my interview with Angelica Lo Duca, author of “Become a Great Data Storyteller” - we discuss heroes, sidekicks, minions and more, along with the inevitable growth of AI …

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 15/08/2025

Thanks to everyone at the Illustrating Mathematics week at ICERM who made Granny Life squares this week! Almost 20 now completed!! Get the free pattern and motif generator at www.grannylifecrochet.com

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 14/08/2025

Any fellow #dataviz folk who are also Fantasy Premier League #fpl players? Challenge yourself against me, @visualisingdata.com, and dozens more Join this mini-league, league code is rcof9h (or use link below) fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto... Totally free .... and starts tomorrow evening!

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Fantasy Premier League, Official Fantasy Football Game of the Premier League

Official Fantasy Premier League 2025/26. Free to play fantasy football game, set up your fantasy football team at the Official Premier League site.

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 14/08/2025

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Fantasy Premier League, Official Fantasy Football Game of the Premier League

Official Fantasy Premier League 2025/26. Free to play fantasy football game, set up your fantasy football team at the Official Premier League site.

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 05/08/2025

Granny Life Progress Report! Out of 100 squares needed, 6 are completed and 54 more are claimed and in progress! Still 40 squares left to claim if you would like to join the cellular automata community crochet math/art project at www.grannylifecrochet.com #geek #mathart #grannylife #crochet 🧶

Two progress bars, the first showing that 60 of 100 squares are either claimed or completed, and the second showing the 6 of 100 squares have been completed

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Kenneth Field @kennethfield.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If you're going to download my mappy tribute to #OzzyOsbourne that plots his touring history with both #BlackSabbath and as a solo artist be sure to look out for a couple of easter eggs. Free download: carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 04/08/2025

This looks so good … Sadly I can’t make it this year but a great deal just got better!

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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 02/08/2025

Math nerds and crafty geeks! You are invited to crochet a granny square based on a cellular automaton for the Granny Life project at www.grannylifecrochet.com. Your work could end up in an art exhibit in Paris! There are plenty of motifs still available to claim :) #mathsky #crochet 🧶

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 01/08/2025

I've signed up for @mathgrrl.com 's amazing #grannylifecrochet project at www.grannylifecrochet.com. I'm not a granny and I've never crocheted but this looks like a great opportunity to take part in mass participation maths algorithm based art. What's not to like? Squares still available!🇫🇷🧶

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 24/07/2025

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 28/07/2025

Looking forward to discussing CHART in the upcoming DataVis Book Club on August 18th! ^_^

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 25/07/2025

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: What is a Hitomezashi Snowflake? questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/25/w... Inspired by @mathskath.bsky.social - looking at encoding data as hitomezashi stitching (steganocoding) and creating digital equivalents, before diving into the mathematics of snowflakes.

An order 5 hitomezashi snowflake created using Tableau (includes snowflakes of order 1,2,3 within)

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 24/07/2025

My latest visualisation - Hitomezashi Snowflakes. Inspired by @mathskath.bsky.social and her book A Stitch in Line, here's my digital recreation of an order five Fibonacci snowflake (highlighted in white, with smaller order snowflakes in different colours). Blog post and explanation to follow! 📊

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 21/07/2025

Morning all! If anyone wants a discount code for a further 15% off Questions in Dataviz (currently already 20% off), please DM me or let me know. Takes the price from £35.99 to £24.47 (with free worldwide shipping) routledge.pub/Questions-in... Code is valid until Thursday (21st July)

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Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation

This book takes the reader through the process of learning and creating data visualisation, following a unique journey with questions every step of the way, ultimately discussing how and when to bend ...

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

#dataviz 📊 Connecting the dots: From data to knowledge to wisdom to ... ???

A set of six boxes with dots labeled:
Data -- unfilled random dots
Information --- some shaded green some purple
Knowledge -- Connected with lines as in a cluster diagram
Insight -- Two "unusual" points highlighted
Wisdom -- A highlighted line connecting the two unusual ones
Conspiracy Theory -- A figure of a dragon, drawn in magenta ignoring the points

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 14/07/2025

Updated my Emily Vanderpoel inspired Wimbledon viz with yesterday's Singles Finals games.. Even an unorthodox design-inspired viz can show how cruel tennis scoring can be. Anisimova may not have registered a single game but did win just over 30% of the total points in Swiatek's 6-0 6-0 win. 📊

Vanderpoel inspired data visualisation showing different types of points won in the two Wimbledon finals games played yesterday.

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 10/07/2025

Love these from @mathgrrl.com - definitely not just for grannies!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 10/07/2025

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who and Transformers

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 08/07/2025

NEW: How do we take inspiration from colour palettes? questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/08/h... My latest blog post features my newest visualisation, looking at two Wimbledon matches in the style of 1901 artist, author and colour theory expert Emily Noyes Vanderpoel.

Vanderpoel style visualisations of Alcaraz v Norrie and Sabalenka v Siegemund

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 08/07/2025

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

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Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🚨 BIG NEWS: @datavandals.bsky.social are headed to London this week for an EPIC project. Read all about it below! Thanks to all our friends Flourish!! Maybe of interest: @londondatavis.bsky.social, @data.ft.com, @datavizsociety.bsky.social, @womenindataviz.bsky.social, @dataviz.bsky.social

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 03/07/2025

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: When does a Chart become Art? @nadiehbremer.com's book is a beautifully documented invitation to data visualisers new and experienced alike to follow her into creative areas where she has been the first to tread. questionsindataviz.com/2025/07/03/w...

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When does a Chart become Art?

ChART is Nadieh Bremer’s second book, following on from Data Sketches, co-authored with Shirley Wu and released in 2021. The simple title is explained by the subtitle: Designing Creative Data Visua…

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 03/07/2025

Oh my word - Sesame Street meets MC Escher, two of my long term obsessions!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 02/07/2025

Ok, BBC Sport, a full filled in bar represents 57%? Got it - that’s nice and clear 🤯

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 02/07/2025

📚 Ready for the next book club discussion? We are! 📆 On August 18th at 4pm UTC, we’ll be diving into "CHART" by @nadiehbremer.com. Join us here on this notepad: notes.dw.tools/p/chart All the details for this session 👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-n...

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Read “CHART” by Nadieh Bremer with us! | Datawrapper Blog

We’re very excited to announce the next book for our book club: Read “CHART” by Nadieh Bremer with us!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 30/06/2025

Just seen my first waterfall chart in real life - on @bbcnewsuk.bsky.social 📊

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 29/06/2025

This looks amazing! As an alumnus of Binoculars to Binomials I know how much fun this trip could be - sadly my leave (and my budget) for trips like this has all been used up this year otherwise I’d seriously be contemplating it. @jerthorp.bsky.social will be an awesome host!

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