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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 22/09/2026

Excellent example for a good scatterplot!

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 10/09/2026

I've just done the largest update to the #dataviz starter pack, with 30 accounts (20%) replaced. It means it will generate more content now. Might be worth re-clicking. Sadly, gender imbalance got worse. I saved 5 spots for women-run accounts. Send suggestions, including yourself! Replies or DMs.

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matia 🇭🇷 @joyofcode.xyz · 07/09/2026

I made a Svelte component wrapper around Rough.js for creating graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy appearance 😄

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 14/08/2026

This site is actually quite smart. See full thread for story 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 20/07/2026

This is very cool stuff ! 💯

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 16/07/2026

Agreed. This why I build a dedicated website for bike counters in Montreal: compteurs-cycliste.r42.ca So people can actually get an overview or a more complete picture on how much cycling has gained traction over the past years. Thanks for sharing @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social

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Montreal Bike Counters

Interactive dashboard of cycling activity across Montreal, based on open data from the Ville de Montréal.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 15/07/2026

1 Cup. 48 Countries. 450 Employers. This new microsite explores the 1,248 players nominated to participate in the #WorldCup2026. In which clubs, countries, and continents do they play during the season? Five different views on the same question using #DataVisualization. world-cup-26.r42.ca

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2026 FIFA Squad Visuals

Interactive visualizations of 2026 FIFA World Cup squads, clubs, and leagues.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 14/07/2026

Thanks to @datawrapper.de for including the World Cup polygon treemap in the latest Data Vis Dispatch. The microsite is now live: world-cup-26.r42.ca more to come...

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2026 FIFA Squad Visuals

Interactive visualizations of 2026 FIFA World Cup squads, clubs, and leagues.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 14/07/2026

I am using #LayerChart from @techniq.dev for the first time and I am absolutely stunned how well IA agents can understand and translate my requirements (series labels with dodging, #dataWrapper style date axis, modern gridlines, line interpolation..) This task took me weeks when I hand coded them!

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 10/07/2026

Preparing a new micro website with team stats of the #WorldCup2026. Preview - should be ready before we know who wins.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 09/07/2026

I added a new visual to the #Montreal #bikeCounter project. Which bike counter sees the most cyclists — and does that change over the year? Hover over the lines and find out. Data updates daily, the race is on. Project: compteurs-cycliste.r42.ca

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 25/06/2026

All visualizations (except the map) in this project where built with #SveltePlot by @driven-by-data.net. Very nice to work with, offering quite some flexibility in terms of custom marks and responsive adaptation.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 23/06/2026

Public data is only useful if people can actually use it. After Montréal restored public access to its bike counter data last month, I decided to built a dashboard to explore cycling trends across these counters. 🚲 compteurs-cycliste.r42.ca Regularly updated as new data becomes available.

Interface of the bike counter dashboard, showing a row of KPIs and a map with installed bike counters

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 17/06/2026

There are a lot of interesting chart variations in this addendum to the report of the Canadian Climate Institute. I guess, I should read the report to entirely understand them 😅

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 11/06/2026

@albertocairo.com talks about the 20th anniversary of Hans Rosling's TED talk and the impact it had on him — and probably on the whole field. 📊

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Twenty years of Hans Rosling's famous TED talk

Celebrating the transformative power of joy and epiphany

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 04/06/2026

wow!

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This report was a HUGE effort from everyone across the City Intelligence Unit!! Really proud of my team for delivering the design and engineering. This digital release builds on years of development of our #Svelte component library, and London City Data Design System! 🥳 📊 #dataviz

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 15/05/2026

Nice find while travelling in Europe. German version of Atlas de la mondialisation (published by Le Monde diplomatique).

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Mehdi Oudjida @mehdioudjida.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is not an analytics reporting (...Magritte, get out of this body). But about the post-modern data stack, or how to build the digital analytics solutions of tomorrow... ..a glimpse into what a future digital analytics data stack output might look like. #DataViz #Analytics 1/6🧵

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Tiziana Alocci @tiziana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I haven't been here for ages, is this still going? #dataviz people, are you there?

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 02/04/2026

For chart history freaks!!

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 25/03/2026

This is one of the best recent summaries of software development in agentic times.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 25/03/2026

This video is an absolute beauty!

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 13/03/2026

New in SveltePlot: Raster Mark I don't understand yet the full concept, but it allows you too interpolate values to create a raster in image format. svelteplot.dev/marks/raster Kudos to @driven-by-data.net

Screenshot from SveltePlot documentation of Raster Mark showing a generic map of Canada with a dithered color overlay.

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 04/03/2026

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com. Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

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Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm

Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

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Observable @observablehq.com · 27/02/2026

When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz. Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂 d3js.org

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 23/02/2026

This new visual start to work out really nice: A Likert scale bar chart with neutral values in the center and automatic calculations of the overall score (in this example: net score). Still a few features missing, but getting there.

Development environment of new Power BI visual

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 18/02/2026

The Winter Olympics are almost over. A good moment to look back at the stream of medals over time. The Olympics try to stay apolitical, but this steamgraph still reflects European history, much like cold winters leave marks in a tree’s rings. Created in #PowerBI with: r42.ca/articles/tim...

$Olympic Winter Games, 1932–2022 Higher, faster — and more medals. At first glance, the steamgraph reflects the steady expansion of the Games themselves: more disciplines, more events, more podiums. Look closer, though, and it also compresses decades of political history into a single shape. The green band traces the forty years of a divided Germany. The red band tells a more fractured story: across the decades, Russian athletes appear under four different names, each change driven by politics rather than sport. In absolute terms, medals attributed to countries outside the top 15 increase over time, whether their share truly grows is less clear..$

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

When running #DataViz workshops, one question that often gets asked is "what's your favourite ever chart?" 📊 So I've started compiling some of the awesome visualisations made by other people that I often share! A very much a work-in-progress, non-exhaustive list: nrennie.rbind.io/fave-data-viz/

Screenshot of site some really cool data visualisations, arranged in a grid.

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Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com · 12/02/2026

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 06/02/2026

Nice analysis of a nicely done chart.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Nine volcanoes of Japan. Mt. Fuji is instantly recognisable. The others too, I hope. This took a while to get right. Looks like fancy chocolates, no? Or little LED buttons. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of nine Japanese volcanoes

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 23/12/2025

Fascinating good old times style. ❤️

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 12/12/2025

This is an amazing weekend lecture. 🧡

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 08/12/2025

Nice video showcasing how data visualization can help to bring a point across the audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6... Using a 3D map showing revenues and expenses of a city (probably made with deck.gl), the author is pretty convincing in telling us that walkable cities are a good thing.

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Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 01/12/2025

These two visuals are now also available on the Power BI Marketplace and mostly free to use, even without a license. Simple visuals, no coding required like when using the Deneb visual.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 19/11/2025

Ohhh, this one is amazing. Visual gallery of SveltePlot.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 16/11/2025

Including Waffle charts!

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Installing @processing.org on my new laptop, and @winterbloed.be's classic HE_Mesh library!! Brilliant library! Even the examples are ace! :)

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 12/11/2025

It’s been quite a journey, but I’m happy to share that three new custom visuals for #PowerBI — free to download. AppSource: lnkd.in/e-demPik web: lnkd.in/eBCnUa8G

small multiples line chart with data labels for Power BI

Donut chart example using small multiples

Scorecards for Power BI creating a heatmap

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 26/10/2025

A fine article on design I found on BS a few weeks ago: www.ft.com/content/e637... And don't miss out on this response letter, which I pretty mcuh agree with: www.ft.com/content/4554... There is no single discipline that can save the world on its own. Great read, #FoodForThoughts

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Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 09/09/2025

Great to see @driven-by-data.net adding new visual types to SveltePlot: svelteplot.dev/transforms/s... SveltePlot is like Observable Plot, but obviously based on Svelte, what makes it much easier to extent functionalities.

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Ralph Spandl @spandl.ca · 14/08/2025

Strong signal - take a break.

Area chart that went the wrong way and converted dates to numbers, which results in a kind of funny data-art drawing.

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