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Luisa Vasquez

@vluisa.bsky.social
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Designer + Developer | interested in data viz, creative coding, fiber arts, data art | prev at RC, MICA, Mapbox

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Both of these upcoming cohorts are sitting at about 1/3 full with a week to go. I'm really puzzled as to why registration has been so slow. Somewhat in desperation, there's now the code SIXTY you can use for 60% off registration.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Um this is so cool?!? Congrats!
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William Careri @wcareri.com · 20/06/2025
Introducing VizDex! An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. vizdexproject.com
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VizDex
A library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“Revolutionaries balk at the strictures of striated spaces and attempt to smooth them. Governments balk at the uncontrolled and uncontrollable nature of smooth spaces and seek to striate them.” Still digesting but this stood out to me. Thanks for sharing!
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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 11/06/2025
Next up at #outlier2025, Zan Armstrong introduces diagnostic charts - the middle ground of really useful charts beyond simple “explore” or “explain” charts - some fascinating science-inspired examples!
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I've checked the box on "despair." Guess it's time to "get back to work." Inspired by @albertocairo.com's advice, in this new EffAff post, Gabby and I consider how simple visualizations 📊 of social change might encourage resilience on the path ahead. effaff.com/hope-despair...
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Hope. Despair. Resistance. Timeseries.
Visualizing social change to inspire hope and spark resistance.
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Recurse Center @recurse.com · 29/01/2025
One Million Applause for One Million Checkboxes 👏✅👏✅👏 Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c
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Localhost: Nolen Royalty's One Million Checkboxes
YouTube video by Recurse Center
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Would love to sign up but seeing this when I click on the link! Could be just on my end.
A bitly warning about a potentially harmful link
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This course not only introduced me to the world of birding but also reignited my interest in creative coding! It taught me what a fun/creative/supportive coding environment *could* look like, full of whimsical sketches and whacky ideas. Would highly recommend!
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Love this!
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Recurse Center @recurse.com · 13/01/2025
Ready, set, scroll! How long does it take you to scroll through a million pixels? Find out with @priyamisner.bsky.social's millionpixeldash.com Reply with your times 😁
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Million Pixel Dash
How fast can you scroll through a million pixels?
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Whew thought I’d be way faster! Million Pixel Dash // 10.7 seconds 🏃‍♂️⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟩🟩🟦🟦💨
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Million Pixel Dash
How fast can you scroll through a million pixels?
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Ooh would you recommend?? I’m interested 👀
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
👏 Love how this turned out! Can’t wait to try it.
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Priya Misner @priyamisner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
project 1: Map Designer, a #dataviz tool and @figma.com plug in that simplifies the process creating and customizing maps in Figma! Had a lot of fun learning how to translate d3-geo's svg paths into Figma's vector networks. try it out and let me know what you think! www.figma.com/community/pl...
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thanks for giving it a look! Glad you enjoyed it.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Wrote up a lil blog post about implementing a Beeswarm chart 📊 using Svelte 5 + D3! This is me learning/sharing as I go so I probably (definitely) got some stuff wrong 🙃 If you have a better approach for force simulations in Svelte 5 lmk! here.luisavasquez.com/thoughts/bee...
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Beeswarms in Svelte 5 + D3
Using Svelte $effect for d3 force simulation
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Wow I love this idea. Now I want to try mapping my own projects, it’s a fun exercise to think of which dimensions would make sense 🤔
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Wow as someone who also always starts by sketching I love seeing this process 🤩
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I'm going to run through all of the regional variants. One of the magic parts of this project is that while the code base is the same, the natural geography of the place and the human habits of the birders means they're all different in form and color. Ready? 🧵
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Excited for more panel chats! I really enjoyed the last one.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
What a great write up, thanks for shedding light on this issue!
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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 27/06/2024
What if each U.S. National Park had a cookie-cutter section removed and placed on a giant chessboard for easy comparison? My latest, with Wendy Shijia Wang: charts.substack.com/p/delicious-...
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Delicious Parks
~ And the spirit was hovering over the surface ~
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
These are incredible - what an immense amount of work!!
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Can’t wait for this talk!
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:
A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
My goal was to learn more about telling compelling data-driven stories. Hannah encouraged me to write about something fun & personal and then guided me thru each step of the process: from pitching a story to refining the angle & polishing the map. Here are some stills of the piece:
Header area of story that reads: "I'd rather walk: Exploring 'walkable' areas in Charlotte, NC based on what matters to me by Luisa Vasquez"Chart that uses images of 45 RPM vinyls to show the difference in time needed to walk to the library in Cambridge, MA vs. Charlotte, NC. There are 2.5 4 min vinyls needed in Cambridge, and 24.8 4 min vinyls needed in Charlotte.A map of overlapping shapes on a map of Charlotte that depict walkable areas to public libraries and coffee shops. The areas are all over the map but the largest overlaps are in the center city, Uptown Charlotte.A zoomed in map of Uptown Charlotte showing the "most walkable" areas by my totally made up criteria.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
I was lucky to be paired with the amazing @hannahdormido.bsky.social as part of the @datavizsociety.bsky.social mentorship program over the past couple of months. We had weekly chats about life, careers, & journalism. And she guided me through writing a fun story! 📊👉 charlotte-walkability.vercel.app
Recording of the linked story. Shows a high-level view of a web story about walkability in Charlotte told through a series of charts and maps.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
I also found this book inspirational! Similarly to you I’m not drawn to replicate the method through this exact medium but it did make me itch to pick up another data art project soon!
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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 18/04/2024
NEW: Questions in Dataviz: How do we take inspiration from textile dataviz? Book review #27 reviews Record, Map & Culture Art by Jordan Cunliffe. A great book showcasing textile art to inspire all dataviz and data art practitioners, textile or otherwise 📊 questionsindataviz.com/2024/04/18/h...
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How can we take inspiration from textile dataviz?
I first wanted to call this post “What is steganography?”. I chose against it, because this post acts as a review of “Record, Map & Culture in Textile Art” by Jordan Cunliffe, a book I have had the pl...
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Ah nice!! Ty!
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
This is awesome! Have been trying to make something similar in DataWrapper, how did you calculate the positions of the dots?
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
I’ve found this tutorial series by @higsch.com very helpful! And I like the starter template from there too youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Svelte + D3 training
A series of small videos to learn Svelte + D3 for data visualization.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
A cool read on creating weighted, random distributions using excel to design a quilt thecrookedhem.substack.com/p/the-ellswo...
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The Ellsworth Kelly quilt, part 2
Math and quilts
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Very cool! And if you flip it over it’s another generative viz of thread noodles 😁
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Mike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
This one took a bit of work, but really like the quilting feel of it. Took my earlier #Generative #linocut and added half size stippled black triangles. Rotation of the stippled triangles also set by the roll of a d4. #GenerativeDice #dataart #dataviz 📊
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Love this mixed media look!
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
📊 Two of the things Luisa Vasquez (@vluisa.bsky.social) loves are reading and sewing. So, when she saw a way she could combine her two loves while sprinkling in some data viz, she had to document her process in creating a quilt visualizing her 2023 reading list. nightingaledvs.com/quilting-my-...
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Quilting My Reading List - Nightingale
This quilt was created using the data from all the books I read in 2023. It measures roughly 11×16 inches, was assembled on my sewing..
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Nice! Cool that trigger on scroll is on the list. I haven’t watched this one yet but sounds like it covers what I had in mind! (I got excited and jumped from circle intro to maps video 😅)
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
One thing that comes to mind is using animated transitions and bonus: triggering a transition on scroll!
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Matthias Stahl @higsch.com · 07/02/2024
I'm on vacation and that's why here's already the next Svelte ❤️ D3 video. This time: How to build a responsive map from a geojson file. 📊🗺️ ➡️ youtu.be/W7nkruZ2q0s
County map of the USA. Some counties are highlighted.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Just watched the first in the series and loved it! Excited to catch up on all of them
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
What a fun idea ☕️ It’s cool to see the different renderings of the same cup!
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Stamen Design @stamen.com · 30/01/2024
"Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind". In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographer @mappingmashups.bsky.social takes us on a typographic tour through the font selection in our signature "Toner" map style. stamen.com/helvetica-is...
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Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind | Stamen
One of our biggest projects last year was an update of our classic basemap styles, working hard with our partners at Stadia to adapt these maps to modern infrastructure and keep them running for years...
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Thank you! After showing it to a couple of friends and having them say “that’s nice but what do they mean” I knew I needed to visualize it 😂
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
Here’s a bonus fun fact and a close up of the quilt
A series of quilt blocks in rows, 8 of the squares are not grayed out and represent the 8 books I read in 2023 that were published in 2023.A close up of the quilt with multi colored blocks, crinkly fabric, and gray stitches separating the blocks.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
If you want to learn more about this quilt, I wrote up a bit here: www.luisavasquez.com/data-viz/a-b...
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A Book Quilt — LV.
A small quilt made with data from all the books I read in 2023.
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
I’m excited to share a data art project I’ve been working on this month! It’s a quilt made using the data of all the books I read in 2023 📊
A photo a crinkly and colorful quilt. It’s made up of 28 color coded squares each encoding a book read, listed in 7 rows of 4 quilt squares. Small hand made stitches add texture to the quilt.The quilt is pictured again, one is highlighted and describes the structure of the quilt “each block represents one book I read in 2023 for a total of 28 books”A horizontal bar chart is made up of photo-clipped quilt squares. It shows that I read 8 fantasy books, 5 data visualization books, and 1 thriller book amongst other categories of contemporary fiction and historical fiction.A histogram shows the number of books I read of each length, 13 of which were between 300-400 pages with one outlier of length 582.
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 29/01/2024
HOW TO GET STARTED ON DATAVIZ BLUESKY 📊 IN 9 STEPS If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it. Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it. 🧵👇
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Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 25/01/2024
This thread inspired me to try out the svelte tutorial and after years of only using react it feels… magical? ✨need to keep digging in with an actual project tho
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