Reposted by Luisa VasquezJer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Both 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. 01014
Reposted by Luisa VasquezWilliam Careri @wcareri.com · 20/06/2025Introducing VizDex! An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. vizdexproject.comvizdexproject.comVizDexA library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization. 911431
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! 000
Reposted by Luisa VasquezNeil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 11/06/2025Next 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! 092
Reposted by Luisa VasquezEli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I'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...effaff.comHope. Despair. Resistance. Timeseries.Visualizing social change to inspire hope and spark resistance. 183
Reposted by Luisa VasquezRecurse Center @recurse.com · 29/01/2025One 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/j2elKdupD6cyoutu.beLocalhost: Nolen Royalty's One Million CheckboxesYouTube video by Recurse Center 06119
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Would love to sign up but seeing this when I click on the link! Could be just on my end. 100
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This 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! 151
Reposted by Luisa VasquezRecurse Center @recurse.com · 13/01/2025Ready, 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 😁millionpixeldash.comMillion Pixel DashHow fast can you scroll through a million pixels? 362
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Whew thought I’d be way faster! Million Pixel Dash // 10.7 seconds 🏃♂️⬜️⬜️🟨🟨🟩🟩🟦🟦💨millionpixeldash.comMillion Pixel DashHow fast can you scroll through a million pixels? 131
Reposted by Luisa VasquezPriya Misner @priyamisner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025project 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... 3407
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Wrote 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...here.luisavasquez.comBeeswarms in Svelte 5 + D3Using Svelte $effect for d3 force simulation 1223
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Wow 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 🤔 010
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Wow as someone who also always starts by sketching I love seeing this process 🤩 020
Reposted by Luisa VasquezJer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I'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? 🧵 153
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Excited for more panel chats! I really enjoyed the last one. 000
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 28/06/2024What a great write up, thanks for shedding light on this issue! 010
Reposted by Luisa VasquezRJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 27/06/2024What 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-...charts.substack.comDelicious Parks~ And the spirit was hovering over the surface ~ 02111
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 19/06/2024These are incredible - what an immense amount of work!! 020
Reposted by Luisa VasquezLauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 21/05/2024I 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: 922989
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 14/05/2024My 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: 010
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 14/05/2024I 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 161
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 19/04/2024I 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! 010
Reposted by Luisa VasquezNeil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 18/04/2024NEW: 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...questionsindataviz.comHow 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... 131
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 02/04/2024This is awesome! Have been trying to make something similar in DataWrapper, how did you calculate the positions of the dots? 100
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 19/03/2024I’ve found this tutorial series by @higsch.com very helpful! And I like the starter template from there too youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comSvelte + D3 trainingA series of small videos to learn Svelte + D3 for data visualization. 071
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 14/03/2024A cool read on creating weighted, random distributions using excel to design a quilt thecrookedhem.substack.com/p/the-ellswo...thecrookedhem.substack.comThe Ellsworth Kelly quilt, part 2Math and quilts 030
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Very cool! And if you flip it over it’s another generative viz of thread noodles 😁 010
Reposted by Luisa VasquezMike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 20/02/2024This 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 📊 2171
Reposted by Luisa VasquezData 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-...nightingaledvs.comQuilting My Reading List - NightingaleThis 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.. 073
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 09/02/2024Nice! 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 😅) 010
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 09/02/2024One thing that comes to mind is using animated transitions and bonus: triggering a transition on scroll! 110
Reposted by Luisa VasquezMatthias Stahl @higsch.com · 07/02/2024I'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 193
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 07/02/2024Just watched the first in the series and loved it! Excited to catch up on all of them 120
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 01/02/2024What a fun idea ☕️ It’s cool to see the different renderings of the same cup! 010
Reposted by Luisa VasquezStamen 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...stamen.comHelvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind | StamenOne 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... 021
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024Thank 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 😂 000
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024Here’s a bonus fun fact and a close up of the quilt 020
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024If you want to learn more about this quilt, I wrote up a bit here: www.luisavasquez.com/data-viz/a-b...luisavasquez.comA Book Quilt — LV.A small quilt made with data from all the books I read in 2023. 120
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 30/01/2024I’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 📊 44215
Reposted by Luisa VasquezVoilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 29/01/2024HOW 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. 🧵👇 33921
Luisa Vasquez @vluisa.bsky.social · 25/01/2024This 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 110