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Introducing VizDex!
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
A poster showing icons for 40 different visualization types, categorized by goal – e.g. "showing shares" or "showing flows" or "showing developments over time".
📊 There are *so* many chart types out there. Which one should you use for what kind of data and goal?
I tried to answer the question in a new blog post (and poster!): www.datawrapper.de/blog/chart-t...
This is awful, people at Meta should go to prison for it, it's very clearly illegal and immoral. Really wish we could all get off WhatsApp, Facebook Marketplace and so on, they're so deeply embedded
www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-...
As a matter of fact, MIT's entire academic culture is one of the most thoroughly rotten of any elite university, and in particular I can say it's far worse than even UPenn's or Stanford's.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/h...
Hoy en San Lázaro Morena y sus secuaces aprobaron el CURP con datos biométricos 😡😡😡
Reddit is raising the alarm about what it called an “improper and highly unethical experiment” by a group of University of Zurich researchers, who secretly deployed AI bots on a popular forum to study how artificial intelligence can influence human opinion.
Si estuvieran verdaderamente interesados en combatir el poder de las plataformas tecnológicas dominantes habrían legislado en materia de protección de datos y competencia para romper el modelo de negocios de la vigilancia masiva.
Pero como además de hipócritas les encanta el estado policial.
La vigilancia total.
- Base de datos centralizada, biométrica y obligatoria.
- CURP como requisito para TODO trámite o prestación de servicio público o privado.
- "Acceso irrestricto y consulta inmediata" de TODA base de datos pública o privada por parte de autoridades, incluyendo el ejército.
Thanks all for the great responses!
I distilled some of them into a subjective selection on this page: truthandbeauty.notion.site/popular-data...
This is fun! Will keep updating — so keep them coming! 😊
The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication
We’re proud to announce that a paper produced by The AI Scientist-v2 passed the peer-review process at a workshop in ICLR, a top AI conference.
Read more about this experiment → sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
wow. "pip install gemma"
Looking for something from #NICAR25 to skim? I'm happy to offer the script for "First LLM Classifier."
https://palewi.re/docs/first-llm-classifier/
The hands-on class, which debuted Saturday, will show you how to create an AI model that can read and categorize text.
Already a time capsule, but back in January a bunch of us working at the intersection of the humanities and AI/ML came together to sketch out eight provocations from the humanities for genAI research. Here's a 🧵 1/
arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.”
But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.
It's a privilege to give a talk in a class taught by someone whose work you've been following for decades... And it was fun!
Hex logo for my course, Psychology of Data Visualization, featuring an image of various graphic ideas inside a brain
ANNOUNCE:
📊 I'm teaching my favorite course, _Psychology of Data Visualization_ again starting in Jan. Among other topics: #history of #dataviz, graph #perception, #rstats graphs, data journalism, ...
Course materials available at: friendly.github.io/6135/
I'll use the tag #psy6135 for posts
Start your own website. Run your own blog. Use decentralized and open-sourced platforms
@ghost.org is a great open-sourced blogging platform and website builder
Pixelfed is doing great work for images and runs on the social web
Support open social projects so your homes on the web don't fall apart
Meinen Talk "Digitalisierung mit der Brechstange" beim #38C3 gibt's jetzt auch als Text in meinem Blog, mit vielen Quellen:
annalist.noblogs.org/post/2025/01...
Bedient Euch, aber sagt gern dazu, woher Ihr die Materialien habt.
🎤 Und ladet mich gern zu Vorträgen zum Thema #DigitaleTeilhabe ein!
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
If you're a journalist, activist, or researcher looking to dive into investigative data, Aleph is for you. 🌐 Aleph helps uncover connections in massive datasets, exposing crime and corruption.
Check it out: aleph.occrp.org
#InvestigativeJournalism #DataForGood #Aleph @occrp.org
NEW: In Culiacán, home to Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel, the streets are empty by nightfall. Businesses are shuttered. A cartel war has gripped the city.
In just three months, 500+ people have been killed and 600+ disappeared.
Desperate relatives want action. 👇
A satellite image showing a large tree in the center, with smaller trees surrounding it.
Based on LIDAR data and @planetlabs.bsky.social basemaps, scientists discovered a tree with a crown diameter of more than 60 meters. They think it might be the biggest tree in the Amazon ctrees.org/news/largest...
Learn in 2025 how to create a #dashboard fully in #Python in 40 lines of code:
dev.to/taipy/build-...
Invitiation image for bremen dataviz meetup
Much looking forward to the 10th edition of the Bremen Dataviz Meetup—Tue Dec 03!
Our guest @tduscher.bsky.social does stunning work in the #scicomm #sciencecommunication space and I am really looking forward to hearing what he will tell us about design research on the topic of aesthetic pleasure!
Some #dataViz goodness in this thread
And there it is.
Netanyahu's govt has put sanctions on the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for its criticisms of Israel's behaviour.
Sanctions include prohibiting all public institutions from communicating with the paper.
This profoundly undermines democracy.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Die Wienerin Schadia J. war eine beliebte Gynäkologin, setzte sich jahrelang gegen Gewalt an Frauen ein – und wurde im Oktober das Opfer des 22. Femizids dieses Jahres. Wie konnte es so weit kommen? Eine traurige und aufwühlende Konstruktion von Birgit Wittstock.
Coming up in December, @datavizsociety.bsky.social's reading club is focusing on papers instead of books. Come chat all about Visual Villainy - thinking about the ways #dataviz can be used to mislead intentionally or unintentionally. www.eventbrite.com/e/dvs-reader...
