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Ashley Kirk @ashleyjkirk.bsky.social · 2h

The Guardian’s Visual & Data Journalism team is expanding! We have three exciting new roles, and we're looking for people who can help us push the boundaries of how we find, report and tell stories. 🧵⬇️

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 4h

Whether you're new to data viz or seeking to make a leap forward in your craft, the value of training is huge. Come join my next public training event, the 1-day 'Fundamentals of Data Visualisation' taking place at Flourish HQ in London on Tuesday 24 November. visualisingdata.com/2026/09/new-...

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New Course: ‘Fundamentals of Data Visualisation’ (London, November 2026) - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere

I'm happy to announce details of a new public training course, the one-day classroom-based 'Fundamentals of Data Visualisation' will take place in London, on Tuesday 24 November 2026. This is an essen...

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Amanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 9h

When I looked into the question of how we could make cities safer for women (and the LGBTQ+ community, and racial minorities and those with disabilities), I discovered good intentions and no data. So what's working? Who knows! www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...

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Do we actually know how to make cities safer for women?

Women-only buses, catcalling fines and gender-sensitive design — we've tried them all.

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 11h

I'm not able to get over for this but its always been a vital event on the data viz conference calendar

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Joe Murphy @joemurph.com · 21h

JOBS: CNBC is hiring: 1. A data viz journalist jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744... 2. A senior editor for data viz jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744...

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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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bootifulgame @bootifulgame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How much does Man City owe your club? • Pick their punishment. • Rewrite 18 Premier League seasons without them. • Hand their trophies to the teams they beat. • Add up the bill. passmode.shop/asterisk

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asterisk — the Premier League without Manchester City

Set Manchester City's punishment and watch 18 Premier League seasons rewrite themselves: new champions, cup winners, European places and relegations.

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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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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 27/09/2026

Hi, would you like to be paid pittance to contribute towards restricting your own future career opportunities?

Email says:

I'm reaching out about a remote Subject Matter Expert – Chart & Data Visualization Analysis opportunity that could be a strong fit for your data visualization and quantitative analysis background.

This is an AI-training project with , where data-driven domain experts interpret charts, graphs, and data visualizations with quantitative rigor and design unambiguous, objectively answerable questions from them — producing the high-quality expert input used to train next-generation AI systems

The work can involve interpreting domain-specific charts, graphs, and data visualizations with a high level of accuracy and domain terminology precision, designing clear multi-step quantitative reasoning questions based on information-rich charts, developing objectively answerable tasks focused on in-depth reasoning, calculations, comparisons, and trend analysis, and providing precise answers with detailed step-by-step explanations of your reasoning and calculation process. Contributors from Medicine & Biostatistics, Finance & Economics, Engineering & Physics, Earth Sciences & GIS, Data Science & Statistics, or Operations & Manufacturing are especially encouraged.

A key requirement is demonstrated expertise working with domain-relevant charts or quantitative data — at least two years of professional, academic, or research experience — plus the ability to use correct chart terms, units, axes, scales, legends, confidence intervals, and time periods, and to write unambiguous, objectively answerable questions with clear calculations in English.

No prior AI experience is required. The focus is on your domain expertise, your chart-interpretation accuracy, and your ability to communicate complex quantitative concepts clearly in both written and verbal form.

Would you be open to taking a look at the opportunity? Just reply "Interested" and I'll share the complete application details and next steps.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PolicyViz was one of the first podcasts where @kanarinka.bsky.social and I were able to share our work on DATA FEMINISM, so it felt very full-circle to talk with Jon again as I prepare to release DATA BY DESIGN 🎧 Listen here: zencastr.com/z/RUuQCK0I 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=PdI...

Flyer announcing a new episode of the PolicyViz podcast with Lauren Klein and Jon Schwabish, featuring their headshots

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 25/09/2026

Cannot wait. Going to cancel all vocal commitments for the 2 days that follow

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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...

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Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches

City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 24/09/2026

We wanted a staircase that could disappear. It needed four walls, rigid steps, and room for extravagant maps. Then it had to collapse flat and ship in an envelope. My latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/a-world-of...

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A World of Maps, Folded Flat

Turning the David Rumsey Map Center’s spectacular stairwell into a pop-up book.

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Bert Spaan @bertspaan.nl · 24/09/2026

I've made an interactive map for exploring the terrain of the world! It uses @mapterhorn.com data and tiles, and WebGL for dynamic colors and animations. relief.bertspaan.nl/world?lang=en

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 24/09/2026

Always a massive pleasure to be able to travel to deliver courses overseas and especially nice to be back in sunny (but lovely-temperatured) Athens for the first of 4 in-person masterclasses hosted by T Academy

The diligent participants working on a data viz challenge

T academy - keep learning moving growing

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I should probably post this once a year or so. @visualisingdata.com on visualizing the many types of zero. #dataviz youtu.be/JqzAuqNPYVM?...

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Andy Kirk - The Design of Nothing: Null, Zero, Blank

YouTube video by BocoupLLC

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Information Plus Conference @infoplusconf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Information+ 2027 is coming to Milan! Join us on 7-9 June 2027 at Politecnico di Milano for three days of presentations, talks, workshops and exhibition pieces around information design and data visualization. The website is now live: informationplusconference.com #InformationPlus2027

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 21/09/2026

The spots for women who post dataviz content regularly are still open. 📊 👀

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 19/09/2026

Bumping again. I have a certain degree of self-interest in promoting independent teaching events as it’s the game I’m in too but if you’ve the budget, and a desire to learn from amongst the best there is, don’t go for bland mainstream courses, roll the dice and push your brain in to new directions

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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 18/09/2026

Ok! SHOP UPDATE ALERT! I’ve finally updated everything, tidied it all up, put new stuff on the shelves and generally made it all nice and ready for your perusal! Jump on in and check it out, and/or give this little shout-out a boost! THAAAAANKS! 🥐 instachaaz.shop

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Instachaaz Shop

Online store for Prints, Artworks, Custom Portraits, Maps and Comics.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Life is really fucking hard for a lot of us right now and strange machines built by billionaires are busy eating all of our lunches. So registration is on a sliding scale up to 60% off. jerthorp.me/learning

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

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LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 18/09/2026

Smart visuals in this piece but as a side note every time I see Big AI written down I see Big Al (L not I) and assume Alan Shearer is up to no good

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 16/09/2026

Nice to see @munzner.bsky.social on Bluesky today. 📊

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this.

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Amanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 16/09/2026

I really didn't want to add to the AI hype. But there's something the reporting is missing. That scary number? The ">10% chance we'll all perish" number? It's nonsense. It's just a bullshit hunch with a percentage sign. www.not-ship.com/stop-trustin...

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Stop trusting the extinction math

The AI industry's favourite 'statistic' isn't backed by data. And it distracts from what's really going on.

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 15/09/2026

Looks like a chilli pepper heat scale

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 12/09/2026

Nice to be boarding a plane to leave Dublin just before he sets foot on the tarmac

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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Totally recommend @visualisingdata.com's #dataviz course!! Do it!! 💯 📊

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 11/09/2026

Whether you're new to the data viz world or seeking to make a leap forward in your craft, learning never stops. Come join my next public training event, the 2-day 'Masterclass in Data Visualisation' taking place at Flourish HQ in London over 23-24 November. visualisingdata.com/2026/09/new-...

Photo of training practitioners at a data vis course event

Photo of training practitioners at a data vis course event witnessing, some might say, greatness. Some have said, actually, but they go to another school so you wouldn't know them.

Photo of training practitioners at a data vis course event enjoying ice creams but this is kind of a bonus feature of events taking place in heat waves so please manage your expectations.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MAXXED OUT at $9.999!! GasBuddy data showing 5 stations in California that have hit the limit and are selling diesel at the dispensers highest possible price: $9.999/gal

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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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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 10/09/2026

Wow, this was one of the first great vis-videos and it’s been updated

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 10/09/2026

The post-summer return to proper work has started off in very good shape with an enjoyable two days delivering data viz training to a lovely group of smart enthusiastic people in London. You can’t tell that from only seeing the back of their heads in this pic, you’ll have to take my word for it

A pic of my training room with people working hard on an exercise which means they cannot afford to spend even a second turning round to pose for the camera. As a bonus there’s some nice exposed brutal steel from the foundations of this building.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Every podcast I don’t listen to is called “Achieving the Limit with Duff and Ween” and gets sold for 300 million dollars while every podcast I do listen to is called “The Movie Toilet” and begs me to buy a t shirt so they can eat food

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 09/09/2026

Where's the AI agent that helps someone: - Apply for Medicaid for a parent - Appeal an insurance denial for a medical procedure - Manage joint child custody? You rarely see these real problems being solved in product demos. It's all sunshine and planning for trips. Dogfooding all the way.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 08/09/2026

Good news guys ChatGPT solved football analytics

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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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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

4 years since The Rock did one if the all time tweets

Rest in peace to Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II. A great woman who sat on the throne as long as anyone in British history.
Sad she will never get to see #BlackAdam V IN THEATERS OCT 21st

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This scraper account posts other people’s stuff without credit. They grudgingly post a separate attribution after the fact, if enough people call them out. Any time an account says “dm me if you own the original,” just put them on the block list. Don’t let these accounts get a foothold here.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 01/09/2026

It's been a while I've shared one of our projects. A client approached us to give more clarity and punch to their report on downtown Montreal trends. 📊 It was not the first edition, so for once we get to truly compare the before/after impact of our work. See thread 🧵👇

Cover page with a single large word saying "L'état" and then underneath "du centre-ville de Montréal" smaller. Two columns of text on a background image of the Montreal skyline.

A night picture of Montreal downtown overlaid with the title of the report: Un centre-ville en transformation.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And there you have it. Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario Lake America, despite having NO obligation to do so. Cowardly, unnecessary, corporate capitulation.

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